North Korea Admits First AH1N1 Cases
North Korea finally reported its first cases of AH1N1 virus. Nine incidents were reported separately from the cities of Sinuiju on the border with China and in the capital Pyongyang.
The country has placed a quarantine system, created health centers and have closed schools for winter last Friday, December...
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Kim Joon who planned to visit Philippines has swine flu
Bad news to Kim Joon fans, it was reported that Kim Joon, who popularly known as Woo Bin in 2009 Korean Drama “Boys over Flowers” confirmed of swine flu on November 29, 2009. Oh no!!
I previously posted about Kim Joon planned to visit Philippines on November 29, 2009 on The Buzz (ABS-CBN)...
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Canada To Stop Using AH1N1 Vaccine
Canada advised its doctors to stop using a batch of AH1N1 vaccines after reports of severe side effects in some patients.
About 172,000 doses of Arepanrix made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) were recalled after six Canadians experienced anaphylaxis, which causes breathing problems, low blood pressure and swelling…
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T Studies: Swine flu spreads long after fever stops
When the coughing stops is probably a better sign of when a swine flu patient is no longer contagious, experts said after seeing new research that suggests the virus can still spread many days after a fever goes away.
Swine Flu Vaccine Available
In the race to produce a vaccine against (A) H1N1, Novartis AG has just won first place. A day after the World Health Organization (WHO)’s upgrade of the swine flu outbreak status into a pandemic, the company announced that it produced the first batch of vaccines against the virus.
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DON’T PANIC: Swine Flu is now a Pandemic!
June 11, 2009 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has just declared the AH1/N1 outbreak as a pandemic, meaning that the outbreak is now beyond epidemic proportions.
The AH1/N1 virus, more commonly known as swine flu is responsible for 141 deaths and 27,737 confirmed infections in 74 countries. Yet despite those figures, WHO and the Department of Health (DOH) are one in saying, “DO NOT PANIC.”
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Swine Flu: Don’t Blame the Pigs!
A/H1N1, otherwise know as the “swine flu”, has caught the world holding its breath for fear of it breathing a lungful of contaminated air.
With a current casualty rating of 151 deaths, thousands of sick and infected persons, and stopping an entire metropolis in its tracks, A/H1N1 can no longer be ignored by the international community. Not to downplay the effects of this virus; which can cause dizziness, coughing, sneezing, and basically everything associated with other flu viruses; but its name has branded a certain population of the planet: pigs.
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