Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
N. Gopal Raj The new H1N1 virus, which threatens to set off an influenza pandemic, is a mishmash of swine, human and bird flu genes drawn from two flu strains that infected pigs. But it is still not clear where the new virus first made its leap from pigs into …
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 …
Japan confirmed its fourth case of the A(H1N1) flu virus on Sunday in a teenager who returned from a school trip to Canada with the three other Japanese who contracted the ailment, commonly known as swine flu. The patient, who was not identified, is being quarantined at a hospital near …
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 …
Thermal Scanners that were used to scan people for possible infection with swine flu (H1N1 virus) and failed to operate before have been reinstalled at the Bandaranaike International Airport at Katunayake after repairs. A spokesman for the Health Ministry said that the scanners had been sent to Singapore for repair …
Geneva The World Health Organisation says the number of confirmed swine flu cases around the world has surpassed 2,000. The agency raised its tally on Thursday to 2,099 cases, from 1,893 late on Wednesday. It said there have been 42 deaths in Mexico and two in the United States. Mexico …
With cases of swine flu, or A(H1N1) influenza, increasing and spreading worldwide, the ministry of health (MoH) called a conference yesterday for all relevant authorities to coordinate preventive and response measures to the possible entrance and outbreak of the flu in Bhutan.
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.
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 …
The State Government has constituted a State Rapid Response Team (SRRT) to combat the threat of influenza A (H1N1) infection, commonly known as swine influenza. Additional Director of the State Health Services Dr Girish Doley has been appointed nodal officer of the SRRT. Disclosing this here today, Health Minister Himanta …
