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Its Back! Where's my big-red-panic-button? "Swine flu victim fights for life" - ABC News
It's believed the woman contracted the virus while overseas. (ABC News: Cate Grant, file photo) Audio: Dr Roscoe Taylor says pregnant women are at a higher risk of contracting swine flu. (ABC News) Map: Hobart 7000 A pregnant woman with swine flu is fighting for her life in the Royal Hobart Hospital. The woman visiting Tasmania from overseas tested positive to the H1N1 virus...
July, 29 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Swine flu pandemic 'unstoppable': WHO
THE swine flu pandemic has become "unstoppable" and all nations will need access to vaccines, a WHO official said today. Britain, Thailand and the Philippines all reported deaths today, while Saudi Arabia shut an international school after 20 students were diagnosed with the A(H1N1) virus. As the death toll increased, the World Health Organisation official said a swine flu vaccine should be available as early as September and all countries would need to...
July, 13 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Swine flu medics in dash to dead victim's WA township
AN emergency medical response crew is rushing to the isolated WA indigenous community that was home to the first swine flu sufferer to die in Australia. The team will land at Kiwirrkurra, more than 600km west of Alice Springs in the Gibson Desert, as doctors and health services warn of the extra risk posed to indigenous communities by the virus. Public health experts are worried that swine flu is likely to hit Aboriginal communities hard, because many people suffer health...
June, 22 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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World first swine flu vaccine
UPDATE: 4.45pm A SWISS company is today claiming to have made the world's first swine flu vaccine. Novartis, which has its Australian headquarters in Sydney, announced it had successfully completed cell-based production of the first batch of A(H1N1) vaccine. ``Based on that success, the company expects to be able to achieve rapid production," a Novartis spokesman said. ``The vaccine is in clinical trials now.'' via news.com.au So they have made their vaccine...
June, 13 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Australia's swine flu alert raised amid fears of full-scale epidemic
THE Federal Government's decision to move to a containment stage to deal with swine flu will be disruptive but necessary, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.Mr Rudd said he had been briefed by Australia's chief medical officer and there had been 13 confirmed cases of the virus in Australia to date. "The Government has acted in response to each and every recommendation put to the government by the professional health authorities across our nation," he said. "This will of course...
May, 22 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Melbourne swine flu family quarantined in their home
Isolated ... Jimmy Dickson and Stephanie Gotlib with their son Adam. Picture: Darryl Gregory Ten cases of swine flu in Australia Family of six confined to home for two weeks Primary school closed due to concerns THREE new cases of swine flu were last night identified as an infected Melbourne family confined to their home spoke of their ordeal. The family of six faces two weeks in quarantine to protect others, the Herald Sun...
May, 21 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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'Swine flu parties' to boost immunity a bad idea, US official says
People reportedly holding "swine flu parties" Idea is to catch early less deadly strain Bad idea says health official A US health official recommends that you cancel plans for that "swine flu party". A swine flu party is a gathering intended to pass on infection of the A(H1N1) flu virus as protection against a future more virulent strain. The idea for "swine flu parties", which reportedly first surfaced on specialty internet sites, comes from "chickenpox...
May, 7 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear
Sometimes its a strange world in which we live. The following is from Reuters news feed today KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu. The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork and pig products are illegal because they are considered irreligious...
May, 5 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Swine flu outbreak cause found!
Authorities believe this is how the disease has been transmitted....beware...... The humour of my friends at work! Still, good for a laugh.
May, 1 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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