A 30-year-old male student enrolled in the United States has been confirmed as China’s second H1N1, or swine flu, case, and its first on the mainland, according to the information office of the Chinese Health Ministry. “Bao” began his journey at St. Louis, Missouri, took a connecting flight at St. Paul, Minnesota, for Tokyo,...
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Asian countries will increase stockpiles of medicine to fight the H1N1 flu virus and look at ways to share essential supplies in the event of an emergency, according to a statement drafted for a meeting Friday. Health ministers from the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan and South Korea...
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CDC says few people in U.S. over 50 hit by new flu
The new H1N1 flu virus appears to be fairly widespread in the United States and seems to be hitting mostly younger people, with very few cases reported in people over 50, U.S. health officials said on Sunday. “We think very few of the cases we have confirmed are in people over 50,” the U.S....
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Google puts flu tracker to work on swine flu
Using a new tracking tool, search engine giant Google said on Wednesday it saw a spike in searches for information about flu among people in Mexico last week even before news of the outbreak became widely known. Google said it has put together a flu trends tracking system for Mexico based on the U.S....
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Swine flu diagnosed in Elyria
The first confirmed case of swine flu in Ohio has been found in a 9-year-old Ely Elementary School third-grader. The school will be closed all week, Superintendent Paul Rigda said late Sunday night. The boy, whom officials did not identify, traveled to Mexico during spring break. While there, he spent time at a farm,...
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Mexico seeks to reassure over deadly swine flu
Mexican authorities sought to reassure citizens Saturday over a deadly new multi-strain swine flu, as the World Health Organization warned that the virus had “pandemic potential.” The outbreak of the new virus transmitted from human to human that has killed up to 60 people and infected hundreds in Mexico and infected eight in the...
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Bird flu war could soon be won
Researchers have discovered human antibodies that neutralise not only H5N1 bird flu, but other strains of influenza as well. They now hope to develop them into life-saving treatments. The antibodies — immune system proteins that attach to invaders such as viruses —also might be used to protect frontline workers and others at high risk...
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