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Pandemic

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Pandemic

description: A widespread epidemic throughout an area, nation or the world.

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 28 mins ago - 10 Documents (in Biology)

Study spotlights asthma risk in kids

1 Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.2 Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. and the Department of Health Policy, Management ... [Canadian Medical Association Journal - 28 mins ago]

Entities: Pandemic, Influenza A H1N1 Virus, University of Toronto

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 25 mins ago - 3 Documents (in Health)

Flu shows signs of peak in some regions

worldwide more than 206 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including over 6770 deaths.As many countries have stopped counting individual cases, particularly of milder ... [WHO - 25 mins ago]

Entities: Pandemic, Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Virus

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 24 mins ago - 13 Documents (in Health)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC: H1N1 declining but still widespread

(CIDRAP News) - Pandemic H1N1 influenza activity is showing further signs of declining around the country but remains very widespread, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.The virus was widespread in 43 states last week, ... [Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy - 24 mins ago]

Entities: Mutation, Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Declination, Vaccine

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 10 Documents (in Health)

Sir Liam Donaldson

Under fives next to be offered swine flu vaccine

Children over six months and under five years of age are the next in line to receive the swine influenza vaccine in the UK.The decision by the four UK Governments to expand the vaccination programme is supported by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and ... [PJ Online - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Swine Flu Vaccine, Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, Vaccine, Swine Flu, Sir Liam Donaldson

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 29 Documents (in Health)

WHO: H1N1 vaccine safety akin to seasonal counterpart

(CIDRAP News) - Early experiences with pandemic vaccines in several countries suggest they have a similar safety profile to seasonal flu vaccines, an official from the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, director of the WHO ... [Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Vaccine, Swine Flu Vaccine, World Health Organization, Pandemic

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 21 Documents (in Health)

Mutation in swine flu virus in Norway

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says a mutation had been found in samples of the swine flu virus taken following the first two deaths from the pandemic in Norway.'The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has informed WHO of a mutation detected in ... [Sky News Australia - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Mutation, Virus, Norway, Swine Flu, Pandemic

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 4 Documents (in Health)

World Health Organization

WHO denies deaths caused by flu jabs

GENEVA About 40 people have died after being inoculated against H1N1 pandemic flu, but investigations so far show the fatalities were not caused by the vaccine, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.WHO reaffirmed that the pandemic vaccine ... [Oman Tribune - 5 hours ago]

Entities: World Health Organization, Pandemic, Vaccine

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 7 Documents (in Health)

Bill Gates Shifts from Computer Viruses to Bird Viruses

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates may have lost $18 billion in the economic crisis, but he's still the world's richest man, according to Forbes magazine, which estimates Gates' wealth as being around 40 billion.Gates is more closely associated with computer ... [Discovery Channel - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Virus, Bill Gates, Computer Virus

First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 5 Documents

Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come

Via Reuters, Maggie Fox offers a good overview of the H1N1 situation around the world: Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come. Excerpt:The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, ... [H5N1 - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Swine Flu, Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Maggie Fox

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Health)

Inovio's Pre-clinincal Study Of Universal Flu Vaccines Reports Protective Response Against Multiple Influenza Strains; Stock Up - Update

TOP MARKET NEWS(RTTNews) - Friday, biotechnology company Inovio Biomedical Corp.(INO: News ) said a combination of its synthetic consensus H1N1, H2N2, H3N2, and H5N1 influenza vaccine candidates achieved protective antibody responses against several ... [RTTNews.com - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Vaccine, Influenza, Inovio Biomedical Corporation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 8 Documents (in Health)

First comprehensive, international baseline evidence about pandemics published

Public health officials walking a tightrope between massive demand for vaccines and intense public scrutiny of side effects now have a new standard for evaluating the safety of their vaccination programs.Widespread concern about the 'swine flu' is prompting ... [News-Medical.Net - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Vaccine, Pandemic, World Health Organization, Dalhousie (Canada)

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents (in Health)

WHO detects no mutation of A(H1N1) flu virus in Ukraine

Preliminary tests have revealed no significant changes in the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus based on investigations of samples taken from patients in Ukraine, according to the press service of the World Health Organization (WHO).A total of 34 samples were ... [For UA - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Virus, Ukraine, World Health Organization, Mutation, Influenza A H1N1 Virus

Quotes

She stressed that the pandemic remains unpredictable and that she didn't know if it has peaked: "We don't know if these declines will persist, what the slope will be, whether we'll have a long decline or it will start to go up again." On the vaccine supply front, Schuchat said a total of 54.1 million doses have been made available, an increase of 11 million over a week ago...

CDC: H1N1 declining but still widespread [Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy - 24 mins ago]

"The viruses were isolated from the first two fatal cases of pandemic influenza in the country and one patient with severe illness" it said, although it added that no further instances were found in tests

Mutation in swine flu virus in Norway [Sky News Australia - 2 hours ago]

...'Essentially what is happening is that it is spreading eastward,' Anthony Mounts of WHO's influenza team told Reuters. "Typically, seasonal influenza always starts west and moves eastward. It seems to be following that pattern except it is coming very early this year." Influenza can hit several peaks in a single season...

Swine flu may have hit peak, but not over yet [MSNBC - 2 hours ago]

More Content

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CDC: H1N1 declining but still widespread [Centre For Infectious Disease Research and Policy - 24 mins ago]
Flu shows signs of peak in some regions [WHO - 25 mins ago]
Nov 20 WHO pandemic update [WHO - 26 mins ago]
Study spotlights asthma risk in kids [Canadian Medical Association Journal - 28 mins ago]
Nov 19 CMAJ study abstract [Canadian Medical Association Journal - 29 mins ago]
OSHA Issues H1N1 Enforcement Procedures Directive [Occupational Health & Safety - 32 mins ago]
WHO Estimates 65 Million Have Received H1N1 Shots [Occupational Health & Safety - 33 mins ago]
DBJ, other creditors let JAL off hook [Japan Times - 48 mins ago]
Signs That Swine Flu Has Peaked in U.S. [New York Times - 1 hour ago]
Swine flu 101: Clinics, updates and information [Individual.com - 1 hour ago]
Britain investigates spread of drug-resistant s... [Radio New Zealand - 1 hour ago]
Mutation in swine flu virus in Norway [Sky News Australia - 2 hours ago]
WHO assesses significance of H1N1 virus mutatio... [SINA - 2 hours ago]
PM’s decision on flu vaccine for children procu... [e-guvernare - 2 hours ago]
Swine flu may have hit peak, but not over yet [MSNBC - 2 hours ago]
Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come [Reuters: U.S. - 2 hours ago]
H1N1 may have [MSNBC - 2 hours ago]
Mutation seen in some H1N1 deaths [MSNBC - 2 hours ago]
Podcast: H1N1 in decline? Marois reignites Queb... [National Post - 2 hours ago]
No Time For Complacency On Swine Flu - Australi... [Medical News Today - 2 hours ago]
Next Steelhenge and IGEM 'Managing Energy Emerg... [PR-USA.net - 2 hours ago]
Govt. probes transmission of drug-resistant swi... [Yahoo! Canada - 2 hours ago]
Video: Are you ready for the 'Dragon Age'? [MSNBC - 2 hours ago]
Five million given swine flu jab in EU (AAP) [Yahoo! News Australia - 2 hours ago]
Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come ... [Yahoo! News - 2 hours ago]
Five million given swine flu jab in EU (AAP) [West Australian - 2 hours ago]
Flu tests: H1N1 may have peaked in Oct. [UPI - 2 hours ago]
Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come [Reuters Canada - 2 hours ago]
Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come [Reuters: Top News - 3 hours ago]
Web Exclusive: Morbid Symptoms, Current Healthc... [Canadian Dimension - 3 hours ago]

Blogs

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Medical Matters: H1N1, Science Ignorance and Ca... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 1 hour ago] I have a few non-authoritative comments regarding recent and current medical developments. This concerns the flu (esp. the H1N1 Swine Pandemic Flu), and the two ...
Dimdim: Avoiding 'SOS' - sick office syndrome [Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and obse ... - 1 hour ago] Guest post by DD Ganguly, CEO, Dimdim A few years back, I used to work for a global company with more than 13,200 people. My office alone had more than 1,000 ...
Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come [H5N1 - 1 hour ago] Via Reuters, Maggie Fox offers a good overview of the H1N1 situation around the world: Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come. Excerpt:The pandemic of swine ...
Did U.S. make mistake in skipping vaccine addit... [Economy-Finance - 4 hours ago] By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. health officials struggle to vaccinate tens of millions of Americans against the pandemic ...
Swine-Flu Update: Resistance, Mutations, Declin... [WSJ.com: Health Blog - 5 hours ago] Here are a few threads from around the world on what’s happening with the H1N1 swine-flu pandemic. Four patients in the past six weeks had Tamiflu-resistant flu ...

Audio/Video

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H1N1 Update [UC Television - YouTube - 11/19/2009]
IGN Daily Fix, 11-17: 360 Dash Update, & Pa... [IGN Entertainment - YouTube - 11/18/2009]
Polio Vaccine, Mesothelioma, SV-40, Smallpox, H... [Mefeedia Video Tag : canc - 11/18/2009]
Polio Vaccine, Mesothelioma, SV-40, Smallpox, H... [Mefeedia Video Tag : canc - 11/18/2009]
Polio Vaccine, Mesothelioma, SV-40, Smallpox, H... [Mefeedia Video Tag : canc - 11/18/2009]

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