The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
Japanese health officials reported four confirmed cases and Tawian two cases of the A/H1N1 virus stemming from overseas flights, while Australia reported its first case but said the victim has recovered and is no longer contagious. China, meanwhile, reported its first suspected case on the mainland, involving a Chinese man …
Of all the potential global disasters that we periodically list and examine, only one has threatened repeatedly to become a reality: the flu, a variety of which is now spreading quickly across the world. A global flu epidemic seems a feeble threat compared to an asteroid impact or a nuclear …
Mexico city sprang back to life this week after two weeks of fear and inactivity. Officials shut down most of the economy to halt the spread of a previously unknown strain of the mongrel H1N1 virus, which is comprised of avian, swine and human influenza viruses. The hope is that …
After almost a fortnight of high alert and a five-day shutdown of ghostly calm, Mexico City this week began gingerly to return to its normal metropolitan bustle. Fears that swine flu might be a deadly epidemic have subsided: testing has shown that it was responsible for fewer than 50 of …
The flu outbreak may be winding down in Mexico and causing fewer deaths than feared, but health officials now fear that a more virulent version will return to kill millions.
In the spring of 1918, North Americans were complaining about an unseasonable flu that was sweeping through several cities. They and the rest of the world were still blissfully unaware of what was in store for later that year: a pandemic that would kill 50 million people, or by some …
The World Health Organization said Thursday that 2,371 people in 24 countries now had confirmed cases of swine flu. A bus stop in Mexico City on Wednesday as some people began returning to work. Only 46 people are known to have died of the virus, all but 2 of them …
The World Health Organisation is considering an overhaul of its pandemic rating system amid criticism that it provoked alarm by rapidly escalating its warnings over swine flu. Officials at the agency's headquarters in Geneva said they were discussing changes to the six-point scale to make clear in the future the …
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week remained on the verge of declaring a pandemic of the H1N1 swine-associated flu virus. Public-health bodies and scientists have made progress in starting to understand the outbreak, but major questions remain about how severe the disease will get.
The first American has died after contracting the swine flu virus, Texas health officials said Tuesday. Officials did not identify the 33-year-old Texas woman but added that she suffered from an unnamed pre-existing medical condition. The health of the woman, a schoolteacher who lived in Harlingen, near the border with …
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The flu outbreak in Mexico could knock as much as half a percentage point off the country's economic growth this year, the government said on Tuesday, as it promised tax relief and emergency financing to affected companies. Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said the blow to the …
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 …
MEXICO CITY: Mexican officials have declared the influenza A(H1N1) epidemic to be waning, but medical experts worldwide say it is to early to make that call. Mexico began its first tentative steps toward normalcy, with Health Secretary Jose Cordova saying most businesses would reopen on Wednesday nationwide, citing ebb in …
Closing schools once a student falls ill with swine flu may no longer be worth the toll on students and families, because the illness will soon be present almost everywhere in the country and few cases have been severe, federal health authorities said Monday.
Medical experts are calling the new influenza virus A(H1N1), but for many Mexicans it is simply a scarlet A. From Chile, where sports officials declined to host Mexican soccer teams, to China, where the authorities forced even healthy resident Mexicans and Mexican travelers into quarantine, Mexicans say they have been …
Canada said on Monday it will pursue World Trade Organisation action against China if it maintains its ban on pork and hogs from the province of Alberta. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced Saturday it had found the H1N1 flu virus in a swine herd in the western province of …
