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State reports 11 more deaths from H1N1; total is now 30
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 5 days ago
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The updated totals come from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's weekly report. Last week, officials began reporting statewide deaths in the same way they are reported by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , which involves...
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H1N1 cases fall in U.S. but could rise with Thanksgiving travel, gatherings
Cardiff :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility The level of swine flu activity in the United States appears to be declining, although officials are worried about another increase of cases during the Thanksgiving holiday when many people travel and families gather. The number of states reporting widespread...
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U.S. adult smoking rate rises slightly
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility The tobacco industry also has been discounting cigarettes to offset tax increases and keep smokes affordable, Willmore said. Between 1997 and 2004, the average retail price of a pack of cigarettes -- adjusted for inflation -- jumped 63 percent, and adult...
Tags: U.S, smokes rate, adults smokes, disease control
CDC triples H1N1 death toll to 3,900
Washington :: DC :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility U.S. officials Thursday more than tripled their estimate of the number of flu deaths over the past several months, saying their previous counting method understated the number of fatalities from the novel H1N1 virus...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Contaminated Beef Recalled After Deaths
Rochester :: NY :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 26 people were sickened and two people died after E. coli infections that may have been cause by bad meat...The stuff was packaged on September 15 and 16, 2009, and may carry sell-by dates between September...
Tags: ground beef, New Hampshire, New York, beef recalled, contaminated beef, disease control, federal health, Fairbank Farms of Ashville, york adult
With This Toilet I Thee Wed: No Toilet, No Bride!
*SENSITIVE MATERIAL* When you get past the potty humor on this one, you begin to sympathize with women of India. With less than 30% of people in India with access to toilets, "no toilet, no bride," has become a rallying cry for women raising...
Tags: India • Policies & legislation • School sanitation Orissa, menstrual cycle, human rights, health, disease control, India, UNICEF, Sunariyan, Kalan, Haryana, UN, Sumitra, United Nations Childrens Fund, Ministry of Rural Development, drop out rate for girls in India, marriage, rural sanitation, rural schools, urban sanitation, urban schools
CDC says H1N1 deaths likely will climb
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 26 days ago
Credibility H1N1 is a younger people's flu with 90 percent of the deaths under the age of 65, with 114 confirmed deaths among children, a U.S. health official said. "More than two-thirds of the deaths have been children with underlying conditions," Dr. Thomas Frieden...
Tags: U.S, disease control, swine flu, Dr. Thomas Frieden, children died, h1n1 flu, CDC, flu vaccine
CDC gives new swine flu numbers
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 27 days ago
Credibility Between 1.8 million and 5.7 million Americans caught pandemic H1N1 influenza this spring, as many as 21,000 were hospitalized, and perhaps 800 died, according to new estimates by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The revised...
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Canada enters 2nd wave of H1N1
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 1 month ago
Credibility Canada has officially entered the second wave of the H1N1 flu pandemic, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Friday. A pilot project in London, Ont., is trying to determine if chewing gum will ease swallowing problems among people with Parkinson's disease....
Tags: swine flu, flu deaths, deaths toll, disease control, World Health Organization, GlaxoSmithKline, health officially
Vaccine Shortfall Predicted as Swine Flu Cases Rise
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Health officials on Friday predicted a shortfall in the supply of swine flu vaccine , as the numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths grow to levels unprecedented for this time of year. Flu caused by the H1N1 virus is now widespread in 41 states,...
Tags: vaccine, h1n1, death, children, swine flu, Dr. Anne Schuchat, flu vaccines, h1n1 vaccines, disease control, million doses
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