A sixth person in Suffolk County – and the eighth on Long Island – has died with the swine flu virus, county health officials said.
The Suffolk County medical examiner’s office is scheduled to perform an autopsy Tuesday to determine if the woman, who was identified only as being between the …
Posted on July 14, 2009 by Swiney .
Posted on July 4, 2009 by Swiney .
A 19-year-old man has died after contracting swine flu in London, health authorities in the capital have said.
The man, from south London, had serious underlying health problems and was in Lewisham Hospital. Tests undertaken after his death showed he had the flu.
He is the fourth person with swine flu to …
Posted on July 4, 2009 by Swiney .
The UN’s top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable.
World Health Organization head Margaret Chan added that the holding of the meeting in Cancun showed confidence in Mexico, which has been hard hit.
The …
Posted on July 2, 2009 by Swiney .
Health experts are warning parents against holding “swine flu parties” in the hope of infecting their children with the H1N1 virus.
Talk of swine flu parties has emerged on Internet forums. The idea is that exposing a child to the H1N1 virus while it remains relatively mild will give the child …
Posted on June 26, 2009 by Swiney .
There are now 93 cases of the H1N1 flu virus throughout Ohio — up from 63 a week ago.
Twenty-five Ohio counties have reported residents diagnosed with the flu virus — known as swine flu — including three counties in the Dayton area.
Montgomery County has three cases, Clark County has six …
Posted on June 26, 2009 by Swiney .
Lithuania has confirmed its first case of the A (H1N1) flu virus, the Public Health Agency said Friday.
“The case was confirmed by the local AIDS center, which has appropriate agents for the test,” Romualdas Sabaliauskas, head of the Center for Emergency Situations under the Ministry of Health, told Reuters.
“He is …
Posted on June 18, 2009 by Swiney .
South Africa’s first swine flu case – a 12-year-old boy who flew in from the US – has been confirmed.
The boy was admitted to a private hospital on Monday morning and discharged after treatment, said health ministry spokesman Fidel Hadebe.
Laboratory tests came back positive on Thursday for the H1N1 virus.
While …
Posted on June 16, 2009 by Swiney .
Camp Daniel Boone workers will continue monitoring campers and staff throughout the summer after 47 people came down with symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, or swine flu.
“We feel like we’re not over and done with it, and we’re going to monitor the situation throughout the summer,” said camp director …
Posted on June 16, 2009 by Swiney .
Qatar announced on Tuesday two cases of the H1N1 flu virus in two foreign children who arrived from the United States and Austria, the first cases in the small Gulf Arab country.
The two boys showed flu symptoms on arrival, were given treatment and were recovering, Health Minister Abdullah al-Qahtani said …
Posted on June 15, 2009 by Swiney .
Croatia identified the first case of H1N1 flu virus in a patient who came from abroad last week and has already recovered, the health minister said on Monday.
“The patient showed mild flu symptoms and the test, the results of which we received today, confirmed the H1N1 virus,” Health Minister Darko …