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Is Swine Flu Poised for a British Invasion of the US?

Here it comes again. An outbreak of H1N1 flu has hospitalized 302 people in England and accounted for 14 deaths in recent weeks, the Guardian reported. Making matters worse, many British citizens, including health workers, have yet to receive flu shots this year after the frenzy of attention paid to H1N1 subsided at the...

Opinion: Let's Lift the Roadblocks to Vaccinations

(Nov. 17) -- With the flu season just getting under way, it's a good time to ask this question: In an age of readily available vaccines, why are so many Americans dying of preventable diseases? About 200,000 will be hospitalized and 36,000 will die of the flu between now and when the flu season ends in May. In...

Tobacco-Based Vaccines Could Pwn Future Pandemics

(Nov. 4) -- Pandemics and bio-terror threats might one day be a health hazard of the past. A massive undertaking by the U.S. military is rapidly transforming vaccine production, yielding fast-tracked approaches to wipe out new illnesses before they spread. The military's been after better bio-threat prevention methods...

H1N1 Declared Over; Experts Ponder Lessons

(Aug. 10) -- More than a year after swine flu was declared a global pandemic, leading to a flurry of fast-tracked vaccine production, travel restrictions and public health advisories, the world has finally entered a "post-pandemic period." That's the word from the World Health Organization, which today downgraded H1N1...

WHO Admits Errors in Handling H1N1

(April 12) -- The World Health Organization has admitted to errors and a lack of clear communication in handling the H1N1 pandemic last year, but its top influenza expert says the agency doesn't regret proclaiming the flu a pandemic. "The reality is there is a huge amount of uncertainty [in a pandemic]. I think we did not...

Background on H1N1

Influenza A (H1N1) virus is a subtype of influenza A virus and was the most common cause of human influenza (flu) in 2009. Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of all influenza-like illness and a small fraction of all seasonal influenza.

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