As the current swine flu virus is present in several countries, trying to contain it is probably not feasible any more. Efforts should now focus mainly on mitigation, according to a public health expert in an Editorial published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) today.
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Health officials have alerted all healthcare providers to be prepared to treat all suspected cases of swine flu, educate the public and report confirmed cases to their state health departments. On Wednesday, April 29, 2009, the first confirmed death in the United States was reported from a 23-month-old toddler in TX.
A new study carried out in France analyses the mortality rates in about 75% of the European population during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic (Spanish Flu). The study concludes that the virus probably did not originate in Europe. You can find this study in the academic journal called Influenza and Other Respiratory Diseases, May issue.
Researchers at the University of Iowa today announced a major study to track public perception of the swine flu outbreak and other infectious diseases, utilizing a unique, realtime index of the social web from OneRiot.
The Africa Regional Office of the World Health Organization (AFRO) has launched a programme to combat the potential spread to Africa of the swine influenza A/H1N1 which, as at 29 April, had been officially reported in nine countries. No cases of swine influenza A/H1N1 have been reported in Africa.
The Department of Health (DH), in the United Kingdom, has issued an information leaflet on swine flu and launched a television advertising campaign to give people advice on how to prevent the disease from spreading. Swine flu is a respiratory disease and has some elements of a virus found in pigs.
PuriCore (LSE:PURI), the life sciences company focused on developing and commercializing proprietary, green solutions that safely, effectively and naturally kill infectious pathogens without causing harm to human health or the environment, reaffirms that its Sterilox Solution has been proven highly effective against human and animal influenza.
The Minnesota House and Senate on Monday both approved bills that aim to slow health care spending as the state faces a $4.6 billion budget deficit, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
According to the Associated Press, the World Health Organization warned that the swine flu outbreak is "moving closer to becoming a pandemic," with WHO flu chief Dr. Keiji Fukuda telling reporters in Geneva that although the virus was not slowing, the health body was not prepared to raise its pandemic alert to the next level, phase 5, the highest being 6.
