swine flu

If swine flu takes off, people are going to be very nervous about getting in a plane to meet a group of people they don't know.

Only stimulation, fun, exciting, people want to ever be thinking about that because I had swine flu, how much I was.

Although swine flu seems to be spreading slowly, it is still progressing quickly enough to justify preparing for a pandemic.

This trial was nothing like the recent swine flu vaccine trials: one shot and bingo, protection for a year.

You know, I don't think Joe Biden's going to catch swine flu, but it's pretty obvious he has a case of foot-in-mouth disease.

The swine flu is a combination of bird, swine, and human influenzas. Health officials say people appear to have no immunity to it.

He confirmed it was an egg farm but said he couldn't 'confirm or deny' whether it supplied eggs for swine-flu vaccine.

Some major Asian stock markets edged downward Tuesday morning as swine flu fears continued to hit stocks across the globe.

Luciano Marabese, who invented the dispenser, said he did so out of concern that fear of swine flu was eroding traditions.

Chan said the experts unanimously agreed there was a wider spread of swine flu than was being reported.

And yet it was not just the BBC ominously informing us that "the deadly swine flu . . . cannot be contained. "

Imagine if it was the sixteen century and swine flu was ravishing the land. The mortality rate would have been innumerable and astounding.

One of them in Ditan Hospital, 19-year-old Joe Robinson, said he felt perky, despite testing positive for swine flu.

Unlike seasonal flu, which tends to be worst among the elderly, swine flu hits kids hardest.

So far, the swine flu causing global health concerns has not turned up in U. S. pig herds.

Health authorities have pointed out that this swine flu strain has never been seen. That may have a lot to do with the deaths, Markel said.

Being a man of action, he brought up the laptop and logged on to the NHS Swine Flu symptom-checker.

Prior to Thursday, Colombia was the only South American nation to confirm swine flu with its borders.

He called swine flu "a novel strain of influenza" , and said the trial would determine the dose and schedule of the vaccination.

"If it's going to help not to have the swine flu and keep my baby safe, I will take it, " Berman-Marciano said.

He said the safety and efficacy of all swine-flu vaccines will be closely monitored by regulators, doctors and scientists around the world.

South Korean officials have found a suspected case of swine flu in a woman who recently returned from Mexico.

Mr Viehbacher estimated that the company could increase output to at least 800m doses of a vaccine for the latest swine flu strain.

When a strain of influenza with pandemic potential struck in April, it was generally referred to as "swine flu" .

She's concerned that the swine flu vaccine hasn't been studied long enough to justify for her less-at-risk youngsters.

Bird and swine flu might have receded for now, but the top candidate for a global pandemic remains: a novel strain of flu.

In London, tests showed that a cabin crew member on a British Airways flight from Mexico City did not have swine flu.

Similarly, there was no significant difference in the rates of H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, between the two groups.

If we carry on like this, bird flu and swine flu will be just the beginning of a century of viral outbreaks.

"Dow futures at the moment are down 115 because of the swine flu fear, so I'm expecting the (local) market to come off, " he said.

While it was unlikely the students had swine flu, it showed that China had an effective surveillance system in place, he said.

Now that the swine flu scare seems to have died down, does this mean we all overreacted?

Unlike the seasonal flu, the H1N1 swine flu virus has been found to be contagious for about a week after symptoms have receded.

But the surge appeared to be an annual late spring event caused by the flu itself, not by China's swine flu vaccination campaign.

The swine flu was a big scare for a moment, but that has generally died away once it got out of the news cycle.

"They said that what we had here was an atypical flu, but if the boy tested positive for swine flu, where did he get it from? " she said.

Swine flu is a misnomer, " said C. Larry Pope, the chief executive of Smithfield Foods, who said he feared panic among consumers. "

No. You can only catch swine flu from being around an infected pig -- or, if it's the new swine flu virus, from an infected person.

There is now "widespread" flu activity in 21 states, up from 11 a week ago, and virtually all the samples tested are the new swine flu.

But it's hard to say whether children account for a higher proportion of deaths from swine flu than they do from seasonal flu.

One leading expert has said that swine flu might eventually afflict up to 40% of the British population.

Hayden Henshaw, an 18-year-old from Cibolo, Texas, who was diagnosed with the swine flu last week, said he felt regular flu symptoms.

All this may seem excessive, considering that Egypt has recorded just 943 cases of swine flu so far, only two of them fatal.

Swine flu looks likely to hold for the time being, though as it changes and spreads its connection to pigs will become increasingly tenuous.

Authorities had been reporting around 150 deaths but only 29 have been confirmed so far to be from swine flu.

Beginning with a small town in Mexico, swine flu swept the globe in April and May, sending journalists and some citizens into a frenzy.

Any flu virus can be dangerous for a pregnant woman, but swine flu appears to be especially threatening.

Are there reasons to be less worried about swine flu now than a week ago?

Unable to get the swine flu vaccine in her area, Demi Knight Clark has been hoping exercise will help to keep her healthy this winter.

H1N1 swine flu is unstoppable, according to the World Health Organization, which has given up on trying to get a precise count of cases.

The death of a 53-year-old man in Costa Rica yesterday was the first involving swine flu outside North America.

The swine flu strain is suspected in more than 150 deaths in Mexico and cases have been confirmed in at least four other countries.

display flu-like symptoms may be randomly quarantined over concerns of the swine flu virus, the U. S. State Department warned.

As a young adult, he's among the groups targeted for the swine flu vaccine; swine flu has been harder on younger people than their elders.

Although most cases appear to be mild, the new swine flu strain has killed just as seasonal flu does.

U. S. health officials have predicted that the swine flu virus would spread and inevitably kill some people, just as seasonal flu does.

Swine flu is the predominant flu type circulating currently, with nine states reporting widespread cases, down from 10 a week ago.

The influenza A(H1N1) (swine flu) outbreak is gradually falling out of the news headlines in the United States.

There's been a leap in swine flu-related death, the figure has risen to 29, it's not known if the majority had underlying health concerns.

Mexico's government began to reopen schools and lift restrictions on businesses, after a five-day shutdown, as panic over swine flu abated.

The governor of the state of Chihuahua, Jose Reyes Baeza says there are no confirmed swine flu cases anywhere in the border state, so far.

As a respiratory infection, influenza virus is transmitted through person-to-person contacts, and "swine flu" is no exception.

Worries about an anticipated resurgence of swine flu in North America later this year is expected to be an urgent topic at the summit.

But residents here say they are certain that Edgar Hernandez was not the only swine flu victim in their town.

So far, our real-world swine flu pandemic appears to be less severe than the dire scenarios used in our modeling.

This discounting means the industry is still making less money than before swine flu, despite the revival in the number of visitors.

Instead, officials will encourage hog farmers to vaccinate their animals in response to any swine flu outbreaks in U. S. pig herds.

You could be placed in medical isolation if someone you traveled with on a plane is suspected of having swine flu.

"Antibiotic resistance is a much more important situation than swine flu and it will only get worse, " he said.

That was the conclusion of a 2006 report* by the Canadian finance ministry, when bird, rather than swine, flu was the concern.

Yes, the swine flu vaccine. But now, it seems we're like totally over all that.

The procedure went well, but there was an added complication when the twins got swine flu.

Kevin Costner has banned his family from travelling with him to protect them from swine flu.

A New England Journal study found that pregnant women with swine flu were nine times more likely to be in intensive care.

Swine flu cases have been reported in more than 20 nations, including Colombia - the first South American nation to see an H1N1 infection.

Swine flu is a mix of pig, bird and human genes to which people have limited natural immunity.

Specific travel advice related to swine flu is fluid and will no doubt change over coming hours, days and weeks.

Reporting the current figures available for swine flu alone wouldn't be all that interesting.

He was 12 weeks premature but had been progressing well in the intensive care unit and was not suffering from swine flu.

Fatemi said the swine flu danger was likely to rise as winter sets in over coming weeks.

Such concern triggered public health alarm in 1976, when soldiers at Fort Dix , N. J. , became sick with an unusual form of swine flu.

Markets have yet to fully react to the swine flu story and we caution traders from getting too caught up in the media hype.

Ever since swine flu had hit England I stopped taking Chloe to all the playgroups and most of the public cafes and department stores.

The move will be widely welcomed at a time when the world is grappling with its response to swine flu.

Soon it became apparent that swine flu was no more lethal than the typical seasonal flu.

It's a confounding question on the lips of disease detectives: Why have the only deaths from the swine flu outbreak happened in Mexico?

"I don't know why it's being called the Mexican swine flu, " he said, when, actually, the virus's genome matches a Euro-Asiatic strain.

However, the WHO says that vaccines are not the only weapon in the fight against swine flu.

The number of deaths this winter from flu verified by the Health Protection Agency currently is 50, with 45 of these due to swine flu.

But Sebelius' supporters argued that her confirmation was important in light of the swine flu outbreak.

The United States has more than forty-eight confirmed cases in five states. But, no one has died from swine flu in this country.

In the past, he said, people have caught other types of swine flu from contact with infected pigs.

As public health officials have stressed since the swine flu pandemic surfaced last April, influenza is unpredictable.

Swine flu is usually found in pigs and normally contracted only by people in contact with the animals.

Mass vaccination against swine flu could begin within weeks, following the approval of two vaccines by the European regulator today.

Here's the rundown on what we know so far, as well as the options for avoiding swine flu and for treating it if you get it.

If the "swine flu" spread further, as a manufacturer of Herbal Pieces, Connecticut United States may benefit from medicine.

Public and private health officials were administering swine flu shots at scores of locations around the country this weekend.

There is no particular epidemic of swine flu in swine themselves at the moment.

The world is in the grip of a swine-flu pandemic, which will probably infect 40% or more of the human race.

The bottom line is that the swine flu crisis is two emergent problems piled on top of one another.

Governments around the world are urging their citizens to avoid traveling to areas infected with swine flu, to minimize its spread.

The prospects of a severe global swine flu pandemic appear to be diminishing.

When swine flu first hit the news in the spring, ministers faced questions about whether Britain had stockpiled enough of it.

People who recover from swine flu may be left with an extraordinary natural ability to fight off flu viruses, findings suggests.

Dora: If it is not for the swine flu, could I explain price fluctuations by cobweb model?

One study showed that pregnant women in the US were more likely to be admitted to hospital with swine flu than other people.

I am amazed that there has not been a public outcry of people saying, "Excuse me, I had a flu jab last year and I still got swine flu. "

US health officials say research is going forward that will allow development of a swine flu vaccine.

When pigs fly : From its apparent epicenter in Mexico, swine flu has taken flight across the oceans.

A few weeks ago a study concluded that patients needed only one shot of vaccine against swine flu, not two as previously thought.

Commodity markets potentially affected by swine flu continued to weaken yesterday with prices for animal feed, such as soya meal, falling.

The figures do not include restrictions on pork imports implemented by 39 countries in the wake of the swine flu outbreak.

The new estimates seems to echo an unpublished, in-depth CDC analysis of 100 U. S. swine flu deaths.

It decided to make the game's villains a group of sickly-looking green pigs, in homage to the swine-flu pandemic then grabbing headlines.

But the conclusion that obesity may be a factor in some swine flu deaths opens up a new line of investigation for epidemiologists.

In any case, after the suspension, there was no reason to restart because the predicted swine flu epidemic never emerged.

The e-Borders scheme won't stop swine flu nor any other bug that results from factory farming.

The WHO reports that those individuals who received the seasonal flu vaccine do not have added protection against the swine flu.

It was noted that some countries were infected with the swine flu epidemic, has become a global public health events of great concern.

However, this new "swine flu" virus, but the phenomenon is hard to understand.

In 1976, a late winter outbreak of swine flu at a military base in the USA led to fears of a devastating pandemic.

It's true that you can't get swine flu from eating cooked pork, and the disease is now passing from human to human.

Swine Flu Recovery Kit, including some pig-shaped soap, bacon band-aids, bacon dental floss, and a sick bag, tops the list.

At least 61 people have been killed by swine flu around the world, and the WHO has confirmed about 4, 800 cases.

Since 2006 it has been hammered by an electoral crisis, a swooning economy and the swine-flu epidemic.

When a few cases of swine flu appeared in private schools and universities last month, the government closed down the lot.

Until now, swine flu has been easy to ignore.

At least 41 people have died in swine flu-related illness in Australia, now well into its winter flu season.

IT IS winter in South America's southern cone, so it is no surprise that swine flu is rampant. But its impact is not uniform.

That number was nearly as many (59) of those whose serum demonstrated a strong response when exposed to the 1976 swine flu itself.

Because most people do not have regular contact with pigs, much of the world's population may lack immunity against swine flu.

Studies have concluded that exercise can enhance the immune system, but is the effect great enough to stave off swine flu?

Pregnant women are among the first to be offered the swine flu vaccine in the UK.

The automaker, which produces Jettas and New Beetles in Puebla, Mexico, says that the stoppage is not due to the recent swine flu outbreak.

A Health Protection Agency spokesman said: "No cases of swine flu have been identified in the UK or anywhere in Europe. "

Swine flu CANNOT be transmitted by food. Eating pork does NOT put you at risk.

In Florida, an Adventist Health System official said a case of swine flu was confirmed in Orlando, WFTV reported.

"There is abundant genetic evidence that the name [swine flu] is appropriate, " says a Nature editorial.

A viral sample was bounced up a chain of laboratories to the CDC, where it was identified as swine flu.

If you're concerned about your risk of infection with swine flu, talk to your doctor and follow specific recommendations from him.

He retrieved them once he learned of the genetic similarity between the new swine flu and classical swine virus.

Additional information on the swine flu disease will be make known as and when it becomes available as the situation evolves.

One solution to the swine flu crisis for formula one would be to stage grands prix without spectators in the stands.

Many Britons were in hot spots there during the crucial weeks when swine flu was gathering pace unnoticed.

One of the abiding images of the swine flu outbreak is the pictures from Mexico of people wandering the streets wearing masks.

Now, though, it seems characteristic, because some people at the BBC apparently view humour in the way the rest of us view swine flu.

In Israel, a health official said swine flu should be called "Mexican flu" due to Jewish and Muslim sensitivities over pork.

New swine flu cases are falling in Britain, but medics are predicting a second wave of the virus as temperatures fall in the Autumn.

The Dutch said a 3-year-old child who recently returned from Mexico had contracted swine flu and was being treated and recovering well.

In 1976, a single death from swine flu in New Jersey and fears that the disease might have spread sent the government into overdrive.

However, even in the early days of the outbreak, not everyone with swine flu will have visited their GP.

The actor, who plays Ron Weasley, attended the premiere after recovering from a mild case of swine flu .

A look a how global health officials have mobilized to combat a deadly strain of swine flu.

"There are fears that the swine flu could do more damage during the long holiday, " Lun said.

LOOK at Britain's press, and you would conclude that the place is about to be overwhelmed by swine flu.

On Sunday, the assistant principal of a school in Queens died after being hospitalized with swine flu.

Some critics have accused the administration of overstating the dangers of swine flu and unnecessarily alarming the public .

The WHO made the ridiculous decision to claim a pandemic even when it was obvious that the swine flu was milder than seasonal flues.

But for insight on how the situation should be handled, the nation's last encounter with swine flu is instructive .

The widow of one of the first confirmed fatalities says she found out her husband had died of swine flu from news reports.

I do not believe that it is yet time to panic but certainly the 12 suspected cases of swine flu in Colombia must be cause for concern.

A man with underlying heart conditions became the third person infected with swine flu to die in the U. S. , health officials said Saturday.

Out of a global population of more than 6 billion people, 8, 768 are estimated to have died from swine flu, 306 from avian flu.

Throughout last week, Obama also had to cope with fears of a global swine flu pandemic.

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The country is in the midst of a serious shortage of swine flu vaccine; only about 16 million doses are available.

The Mexican protests came as China reported its first suspected case of swine flu on the mainland.

I stood in a corner of the restaurant during lunch one day (shortly after the swine flu outbreak began, in fact) and started counting.

Laboratory tests suggest this swine flu is susceptible to the antiviral drugs Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and Relenza (zanamivir).

The World Health Organization expects a vaccine against swine flu to be available by September or October this year.

This defies previous expectations that vaccines against the so-called swine flu would need two doses to work.

Such numbers will make it difficult for swine flu in its current form to reappear in a new wave, Schaffner noted.

China's health minister says the nation is facing a grim situation as it tries to contain a rapid surge in swine flu.

It turned out that a visitor from California had shown symptoms of the swine flu virus, or H1N1, when he arrived for a funeral.

The news is quite startling as it is rare for swine flu to infect people.

This is a very small number, but it still meant that more people died as a result of the vaccine than from swine flu.

Identification as a swine flu influenza A virus requires sending the specimen to CDC for laboratory testing.

A swelling number of scientists believe swine flu has not happened by accident.

Professor Neil Ferguson is an expert in infectious diseases, says the UK's reacted well to the swine flu threat.

Even Kellogg's decided to feed into the swine flu myth and hysteria.

Er, the swine flu is spreading widely now. You should tell him to be careful.

So is so-called swine flu really just another environmental problem associated with factory farming?

Evidence accumulated this summer indicates that the novel H1N1 swine flu virus was not entirely new to all human immune systems.

Quite apart from the human toll, a swine-flu outbreak could wreak havoc on another, already weakened patient: the global economy.

swine flu, while seven of their close family and friends are being treated with anti-viral medication after showing mild flu-like symptoms.

Not everyone agrees with Viehbacher that vaccine makers would have to abandon seasonal-flu vaccines to accommodate a swine-flu vaccine.

The seasonal strain of H1N1 is a distant cousin of the swine flu and was widely resistant to Tamiflu this year.

Swine flu is a respertory sickens respiratory sickness caused by an influenza virus that mainly infects pigs.

If this swine flu is the next deadly pandemic, the world will curse itself for not being fully prepared.

Swine flu is arespirtoryrespiratory sickness caused by an influenza virus that mainly infects pigs.

He says he does not know how many of those cases were confirmed as swine flu.

In the early days of the swine flu outbreak, doctors took swabs and tested people for swine flu.

He knew they were investigating swine flu cases in California and Texas.

BBC Online reported last week (28 May) that scientists have produced a viral strain that can be used to make a vaccine against swine flu.

New York health workers will no longer have to get the swine flu vaccine to keep their jobs.

Millions of people in the United States have had swine flu, known as H1N1, either in the first wave in the spring or the current wave.

Next on the list was the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.

With cases of swine flu already reported across a wider geographic area than Sars, the economic impact could be broader.

To combat swine flu, for instance, we could make a precise, gene-modified pig to improve the animal's resistance to the disease.

The government's chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, has repeatedly warned of a second wave of swine flu in the autumn.

It is reported that, in the whole of Europe, the Catalunya region has the greatest number of suspected swine flu cases.

Existing vaccine can prevent the risk of swine influenza, there is no prevention of human infection with swine flu vaccine.

How Serious Is the Public Health Threat of a Swine Flu Epidemic?

The tourists must seriously comply with relevant regulations and not bring prohibited goods from the human swine flu epidemic areas.

As for Toure, during today it could be confirmed whether these symptoms are also a result of swine flu.

The rRT-PCR Swine Flu Panel diagnostic test was authorized for testing samples from flu patients to determine if they have the new strain.

A woman in Scotland has become the first person outside of the Americas to die of swine flu.

ATLANTA (AP) -- There were more signs Wednesday that those hardest-hit by swine flu are the young.

That would require that scientists have more genetic sequences of swine flu taken from sick pigs over the past decade.

Quest Scientists are working on a universal flu vaccine, but one will not be ready in time to fight the new swine flu strain.

As swine flu approaches the pandemic stage, a new fad is going viral: the swine flu fashion mask.

Many of the confirmed swine flu cases in Mexico and the United States are genetically identical, the World Health Organisation says.

The investigation comes amid mounting concerns in South Korea about a potential wide scale outbreak of swine flu.

H1N1 and H3N2 swine flu viruses are endemic among pig populations in the United States and something that the industry deals with routinely.

Three girls who were confirmed to have contracted swine flu were taken to hospital.

A genetic mutation could explain why some people suffer severely or even die from swine flu while others experience only mild symptoms.

The second wave of the swine flu pandemic is now under way in the northern hemisphere.

However, assuming you're sufficiently cool about swine flu to touch those you do business with, what is an appropriate workplace greeting?

Swine flu cases are rapidly increasing across the country, the officials said.

Swine influenza (swine flu) is an acute viral infection of the respiratory tract in pigs caused by type A influenza virus.

Swine flu is a respiratory disease, caused by a strain of the influenza type A virus known as H1N1.

Last month, the State Food and Drug Administration approved two domestically made single-dose swine-flu vaccines.

Significant inflation in 2007 was largely driven by 'blue ear' disease, a form of swine flu among pigs.

Swine flu symptoms are similar to regular flu symptoms and include cough, sore throat, fever, chills, headache, and fatigue.

Symptoms of swine flu are similar to those of regular flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.

Symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to those of seasonal influenza -- sudden fever, coughing, muscle aches and extreme fatigue.

If that declaration is made, it will push drug makers to fast-track production of a swine flu vaccine.

Symptoms of swine flu in humans appear to be similar to those produced by standard, seasonal flu.

In the past week, 95% of the swine flu cases have been locally transmitted, and Chinese experts say infections are expected to ramp up.

Last week, there were a lot of questions about swine flu, not the least of which was what to call it.

Nevertheless, fears of a replay of the 1918 pandemic lead to 48million people being hastily vaccinated against the swine flu virus.

China has defended the steps as necessary to block swine flu from entering the world's most populous nation.

Many people will have had swine flu and recovered without even seeing a doctor, or taking medicines.

As well as fewer people viewing apartments, buyers now also want a swine-flu discount to complete a deal.

In the past, severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with swine flu infection in people.

Parents pondered dispatching their children to "swine flu parties" , to contract the illness before it mutated.

Swine flu outbreak to the global economic recovery cast a shadow over the prospects.

CHICAGO - CLINICAL trials for the new swine flu vaccine have turned up no red flags, US health officials said on Friday.

HARKIN: Dr. Fauci, in my opening statement I kept referring to it as the so-called swine flu.

It is not the same as the classical swine flu that affects pigs.

Sometimes, as with the outlook for the swine-flu pandemic, progress and distress compete in the same story.

Mexico City, which accounts for 22% of the nation's gross domestic product, has virtually closed in response to the swine flu.

The CDC says the seasonal flu vaccine is 'unlikely to provide protection' against the swine flu.

Six months after swine flu first shot to world attention, US President Barack Obama declares the virus a national emergency.

The Egyptian authorities have ordered a cull of all pigs in their country as a precaution against swine flu.

The 11 U. S. swine flu victims range in age from 9 to over 50. All recovered or are recovering; at least two were hospitalized.

In this, it follows a long line of travel scares that have included SARS, swine flu and terrorist attacks.

He suggests steps that could help prevent getting swine flu on an airplane.

Some people infected with swine flu may also have runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.