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Susceptible to Swine Flu but Skipping Inoculations

Sydney : Australia | about 1 month ago  
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  • Registered Nurse Tracy Myers holds a dose of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine at Children's Hospital Boston primary care clinic in Boston
    Registered Nurse Tracy Myers holds a dose of the H1N1 swine flu ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Three year-old Ehikioya Otoadese receives an H1N1 swine flu vaccine at the Children's Hospital Boston primary care clinic in Boston
    Three year-old Ehikioya Otoadese receives an H1N1 swine flu vaccine at ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Eleven year-old Kerimal Suriel receives an H1N1 swine flu vaccine at the Children's Hospital Boston primary care clinic in Boston
    Eleven year-old Kerimal Suriel receives an H1N1 swine flu vaccine at ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Dr. Ronald Samuels, Associate Director of Children's Hospital Boston Primary Care Clinic, holds up a package of recently received H1N1 swine flu vaccines in Boston
    Dr. Ronald Samuels, Associate Director of Children's Hospital Boston ...
    Source: Reuters
Registered Nurse Tracy Myers holds a dose of the H1N1 swine flu ...
The age group most likely to become infected with swine flu — students from elementary and high school — is the group that did the worst in having seasonal flu shots last year, according to data released Thursday by federal health officials. Only about 21 percent of children ages 5 to 17 received flu...
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  • News Source: Sun Sentinel | about 1 month ago
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors not to prescribe antiviral drugs like Tamiflu to every swine flu patient to stop overuse. The CDC says the drugs should only be used on swine flu patients ill enough to be hospitalized...
  • News Source: The Washington Times | about 1 month ago
    One-quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That's a little higher than with...
  • News Source: Xtra News | about 1 month ago
    New Zealand and Australian hospitals experienced a 1500 percent jump in demand for beds in intensive care units (ICUs) when swine flu struck in the seasonal flu season. Swine flu had a profound effect on ICUs over the winter from June through August,...
  • News Source: Chicago Tribune | about 1 month ago
    Pandemic H1N1 influenza caused a 15-fold increase in admissions to intensive-care units for lung problems in Australia and New Zealand during the winter flu season, researchers reported Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, offering a...
  • News Source: The New York Times | about 1 month ago
    The age group most likely to become infected with swine flu — students from elementary and high school — is the group that did the worst in having seasonal flu shots last year, according to data released Thursday by federal health officials. Only...
  • News Source: Star Tribune | about 1 month ago
    One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring needed intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global pandemic suggests...What is striking and unusual is that...
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  • Blog Source: medicalhealthbuzz.blogspot.com
    Swine flu put many hospitalized patients into ICU. One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of ... A second
  • Blog Source: hygimia69.blogspot.com
    There have been 36 new hospitalisations for the past week around Australia with pandemic (H1N1) 2009. Of these, 1 person in hospital is an Indigenous Australian. There have been 10 people admitted to Intensive Care Units this week. ... ICU admissions:
  • Blog Source: papundits.wordpress.com
    The CDC's director, Dr. Tom Friedman, admitted that the swine flu is no more dangerous to kids than the seasonal flu, although he said the “jury is still out” on whether it's LESS dangerous. “Through Aug. 8, there were 477 total swine ...
  • Blog Source: hygimia69.blogspot.com
    This perspective has also been widely reported from statements made by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which restated its confidence in the H1N1 flu vaccine and calling it the most important tool against the pandemic. ... The authors conclude
  • Blog Source: www.linkingpeopletogether.com
    Seven people, including four from Maharashtra, died of swine flu Monday taking the toll in the country to 351. The number of H1N1 cases in India also crossed the 11000 mark, union health ministry said. Apart from the four deaths in Maharashtra, one
  • Blog Source: www.bbc.co.uk
    Finally, there is a sad reminder from Northern Ireland that although swine flu is mild for most, it can be deadly for a tiny minority. A 12-year-old boy died this morning in the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald. He had swine flu and had a serious
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