A note for the next pandemic: Face masks might be the way to go after all | Los Angeles Times

Posted by Matt in January 21st, 2010 | no comment

Published in Disease, Academic Researchers, Booster Shots, Decline, Face Mask, Face Masks, FaceMasks, Flu, Flu Season, Influenza, Influenza Strain, Los Angeles Times, Pandemic, Pharmacies, University Michigan, University Of Michigan, University Residence Halls

Wear the face mask? Don’t wear the face mask? The question may seem moot now — what with a decline in H1N1 cases and pharmacies now publicly trumpeting the availability of vaccine against the influenza strain — but a few months back, it was anything but academic.
Researchers at the University of Michigan have been studying [...]

H1N1 Flu Pandemic: New Wave in 2010? – TIME

Posted by Matt in December 10th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, CDC, Centers For Disease Control, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention Cdc, Disease Control And Prevention, Dr Thomas, Flu, Flu Pandemic, Health Officials, Influenza, Informal Poll, New Wave, New Year, Second Wave, Thomas Frieden

The question now on health officials’ minds is: Will there be a second wave of cases in the new year? The answer depends on whom you ask. “We took an informal poll of about a dozen of some of the world’s leading experts in influenza,” Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control [...]

Ten apocalyptic theories on ‘The End of the World’ on December 21, 2012 | Momento 24

Posted by Matt in November 14th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disasters, 1918, AIDS, Asia, China, Deaths, December 21 2012, First-World-War, Flu, Flu Epidemics, Global Pandemic, Health Protection Agency, Influenza, Nbsp, Outbreak, Pandemics, Plague, Sars, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Surgical Masks

Virologist Maria Zambón Health Protection Agency’s Influenza Laboratory, UK – Global pandemic – “Over the last century we have had 4 major flu epidemics, along with AIDS and SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome, which has extended the use of surgical masks in China and Asia. Massive pandemics plague the world each century and [...]

WHO warns of swine flu pandemic’s second wave

Posted by Matt in August 24th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, Afp, Autumn And Winter, Flu, Global Health, Hartl, Health Watchdog, Influenza, Mysterious Patterns, Northern Hemisphere, Second Wave, Spokesman, Swine Flu Pandemic, Virus, World Health Organisation

The World Health Organisation is urging the planet to brace for a second wave of the swine flu pandemic as the heavily populated northern hemisphere edges towards the cooler season when flu thrives.
“The WHO is still mobilised and worried,” spokesman Gregory Hartl said as the global health watchdog kept an anxious eye on some “mysterious” [...]

An incredibly contagious game called the Great Flu | Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted by Matt in August 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, 1918, Chickens, China Power, Crowd, Enormity, Few Minutes, Flu, Game Conference, Global Flu Pandemic, Global Health, Good Game, Health Resource, Influenza, Nasty Bug, Nonprofits, Philadelphia Inquirer, Resource System, Spanish Flu Pandemic, Strains, Video Game

While there is no shortage of online issue-oriented games shoveled out to the Web crowd by politicos, nonprofits, and marketing types nowadays, very few have the depth to keep one occupied for more than a few minutes. But the Great Flu brings the opposite problem: It’s hard to tear yourself away. The free-to-play title, which [...]

The Flu Hunters: Racing to Outsmart a Pandemic – TIME

Posted by Matt in August 10th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, Alpha 2, Animal Hosts, Animals, Co Worker, Deputy Director, Flu, Human Cells, Influenza, Influenza Centre, Influenza Outbreak, Mexico, Pandemic, protein, Respiratory Tract, Rod Daniels, Specificity, Virologist, Virus, Viruses, Way To London

On April 25, Rod Daniels, the deputy director of the World Influenza Centre in London, was at a meeting in Germany when he received a call from a co-worker: an influenza outbreak had been reported in Mexico and the first samples of the virus were on their way to London for examination. A virologist who [...]

Fastest-Moving Flu Pandemic May Strike U.S. Early (Update1) – Bloomberg.com

Posted by Matt in July 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, Blogged, Bloomberg, Flock Browser, Flu, Flu Pandemic, Flu Season, Full Force, Globe, Health Officials, Influenza, Influenza Pandemic, Moving, Swine Flu

Swine flu has taken root across the globe faster than any previous influenza pandemic, and its full force may strike the U.S. earlier than the typical flu season, health officials said.
Fastest-Moving Flu Pandemic May Strike U.S. Early (Update1) – Bloomberg.com
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Past suggests that worst of [Swine] flu may be yet to come

Posted by Matt in June 6th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, Fears, Flu, Germs, Howard Markel, Influenza, Mantra, Medical Historian, Mexico, Michigan Travel, Pandemic, Resurgence, Scare, scenarios, Swine Flu, University Michigan, University Of Michigan

While the public may be over the initial scare from Mexico in April, it is these longer-term scenarios that keep pandemic experts up at night. A seeming resurgence of swine flu in New York in mid-May and its spread worldwide haven’t helped.
“This one may or may not come back in September or October. It may [...]

Pigs an underestimated source of flu – study

Posted by Matt in June 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, Bird Flu, Flu, Flu Study, Global Health, Health Officials, Herds, Influenza, Influenza Strains, Mexico, Pig, Pigs, Risk

Global health officials underestimated the risk that pig herds might be a source of new influenza strains, choosing instead to focus on the threat of bird flu, researchers in Mexico said on Thursday.
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Pandemic News as of 6-2-2009

Posted by Matt in June 2nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Disease, arsenal, Autumn, British Scientists, Copenhagen Post, Daily Mail Uk, Daniel Martin, Denmark, Discovery, Flu, Influenza, Influenza Virus, Pandemic, Sealand, Swine Flu Pandemic

Swine flu pandemic ‘will hit Britain in the autumn’
Daily Mail – UK
By Daniel Martin
A swine flu pandemic is likely to hit Britain in the autumn, an expert has warned. So far there has been a relatively low total of 244 …
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New vaccine could soon be added to national arsenal of pandemic …
The Copenhagen Post [...]