By Aditi Biswas
Kolkata: Breaking News! Swine Flu raises panic in West Bengal. West Bengal shivers with 3rd H1N1 death this year.
This Thursday, Kolkata witnessed 9 more deaths resulting from Swine flu thereby taking Bengal’s toll to 91. The most current victim was an old man aged 66 years.
He was admitted to Apollo Hospital on 28th [...]
Washington, April 24 : A new American study has linked 1976 ‘’swine flu” shot to stronger immune response to 21st century pandemic flu.
Researchers at St. Jude Children’’s Research Hospital found that individuals who reported receiving the 1976 vaccine mounted an enhanced immune response against both the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus and a different H1N1 flu [...]
London, Jan 27 (ANI): WHO officials have denied accusations that swine flu was declared a pandemic under an improper influence from drug firms.
Countries rushed to order thousands of vaccine doses when the pandemic was declared in June, but the virus proved to be relatively mild.
The Council of Europe had cast doubts in WHO’s links with [...]
Melbourne, Jan 12 (ANI): A leading Australian expert has said that the outbreak of H1N1 was falsely exaggerated by pharmaceutical industries to create a huge market for vaccines.
According to The Sun, Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, insists that major firms organised a “campaign of panic” to put pressure on the [...]
By Priya Rai
New Delhi: The pangs of the deadly swine flu can still be felt with the nationwide death toll now reaching to 530 with four more swine flu deaths being reported on Tuesday.
One death each was reported from Karnataka, Goa, Uttarakhand and Gujarat. With that one death in Karnataka, the toll in the southern [...]
By Vijay Singh
New Delhi: Swine Flu death toll is now reached to 508. Meanwhile 3 more deaths have been confirmed by the officials. About 138 people were confirmed for swine flu today.
According to the Indian Health Ministry, one person died in the capital and two deaths were reported from Rajasthan.
The total lab confirmed cases of [...]
By Priya Rai
New York: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had put the U.S. swine flu death count at more than 1,000.
However, the new figure says that 4,000 or more Americans have succumbed to swine flu.
It includes deaths caused by complications related to swine flu, including pneumonia and bacterial infections.
Officials said this week they’re [...]
Washington, Oct 29 (ANI): With as much information as we all are hearing about swine flu, there is also a lot of misinformation.
Therefore, learning about myths surrounding swine flu can provide protection against the virus, reports New Scientist.
The eight myths about swine flu are:
Myth 1 – The symptoms are like regular flu, such as fever
Testing [...]
Washington, Oct 28 (ANI): A cocktail of three drugs, already on the market, offers the best hope in developing a single agent to treat drug-resistant H1N1 swine flu, say researchers.
Mark Prichard, a virology researcher in the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, says that in laboratory testing, the triple combination of [...]
Washington, October 14 (ANI): Many patients suffering from symptoms of the H1N1 (Swine flu) virus required support treatment with heart-lung machines, researchers have pointed out.
The Australia and New Zealand Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ANZ ECMO) Influenza Investigators looked at factors including degree of lung dysfunction in patients, how many were admitted and the duration of [...]