Daily H1N1 Headline Roundup for September
These were the daily headlines from September 2009 about H1N1 Swine Flu and other influenza and Bird Flu (H5N1) topics.
Note: As of 20 September, the WHO (World Health Organization) reports there have been more than 300,000 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1, 3917 deaths, in 191 countries and territories reported to WHO.
(As more and more countries have stopped counting individual cases, particularly of milder illness, the case count is significantly lower than the actually number of cases that have occurred. While the case counts no longer reflect actual disease activity, WHO is actively monitoring the progress of the pandemic through frequent consultations with the WHO Regional Offices and member states and through monitoring of multiple sources of data.)
30 September » Public deserves information about H1N1
DesMoinesRegister.com
The fact that someone died of the H1N1 flu virus somewhere in Iowa is not particularly useful information to the average Iowan. …
29 September » After a tragic loss, family steps up in flu vaccine trials
USA Today
Harrison says most people enrolled their children in the trial to protect them from swine flu, especially with school approaching, but many also took into …
28 September » Second wave of swine flu pandemic begins to hit US
Boston Globe
(Matt York/ Associated Press) By Rob Stein WASHINGTON – After months of warnings and frantic preparations, the second wave of the swine flu pandemic is …
27 September » Swine flu shot: Intense tracking for side effects
The Associated Press
If you’re one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and …
26 September » EU Panel Backs Roche Tamiflu Use In Young Babies
Wall Street Journal
VX) antiviral drug Tamiflu to be used in children younger than six months during the pandemic of the H1N1/A swine flu virus, and to prevent infection in …
25 September » Most parents won’t have kids get H1N1 flu shots, study finds
Los Angeles Times
By Melissa Healy Germ-spreading schoolchildren are expected to be the focus of a massive US vaccination campaign against the novel H1N1 flu. …
24 September » Study: Flu shot better than nasal spray in adults
The Associated Press
That may not be true, however, for swine flu vaccines, which may be available first in a spray. Experts say both kinds might be equally effective against …
23 September » More Deadly Swine Flu? CDC Mixes H1N1, H5N1 Viruses in Tests
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The scientists want to know whether a combination of the H1N1 virus -– highly transmissible, but not terribly deadly -– and the H5N1 flu virus could create …
22 September » Flu Can Raise Chances of Heart Attack
U.S. News & World Report
Because both seasonal and the pandemic H1N1 swine flu are circulating this fall and winter, people at risk for heart attacks are urged to get a seasonal flu …
21 September » New York Health Care Workers Resist Flu Vaccine Rule
New York Times
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and KAREN ZRAICK When she cleans the rooms of patients with swine flu symptoms, Jana Newton, a housekeeper at Maimonides Medical …
20 September » Flu on campus: What works, what doesn’t
Reuters
So far this academic year, there have been 13434 reported cases of flu-like illness, most of which are presumed to be swine flu because seasonal flu has not …
19 September » Vaccine could be ‘more dangerous than swine flu‘
ABC Online
The Australian Vaccination Network lobby group says more testing of the swine flu vaccine needs to be done before it is given to the public. …
18 September » Swine flu’s tendency to strike the young is causing confusion
Los Angeles Times
Scientists had theorized that the new H1N1 swine flu descended from the 1918 Spanish flu, an H1N1 strain that killed an estimated 50 million people …
17 September » 460000 qualify for swine flu vaccine
Buffalo News
The 460000 at-risk residents are prone to catching the swine flu, passing it along or suffering serious consequences from it. …
16 September » Swine Flu Might Be Even More Contagious
ABC News
By MICHAEL SMITH SAN FRANCISCO — People infected with the swine flu (or H1N1 pandemic flu) strain continue to shed virus after the point where current …
15 September » Small Businesses Urged to Prepare for Disruptions From Swine Flu
Washington Post
Molly Brogan, spokeswoman for the National Small Business Association, said swine flu has the potential to do serious harm to some fragile small businesses …
14 September » Study: New drug fights flu as well as Tamiflu does
The Associated Press
It is the first big meeting of infectious disease specialists since the new H1N1 swine flu emerged in April. Treatment options are getting huge attention …
13 September » 2 flu strains in 1 pig led to new H1N1
Chicago Tribune
By Karen Kaplan Tribune newspapers The virus behind the global influenza outbreak may be known as swine flu, but it didn’t just come from pigs. …
12 September » Disaster Plans Being Revised For Swine Flu Strains on Emergency …
Washington Post
Even if swine flu remains a mild infection, the pandemic could be the tipping point for an emergency medical system teetering on the edge. …
11 September » NIH expands swine flu shot tests to pregnant women
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It’s time to test the new swine flu vaccine in pregnant women. Studies of adults and children are going so well that the National Institutes of …
10 September » Swine flu summit pushes prevention
Houston Chronicle
Even the experts don’t have all the answers about swine flu, but Houston health leaders do have a new directive for parents of children with mild symptoms: …
09 September » Novartis Has Swine Flu Vaccine Shortfall -Dutch Govt
Wall Street Journal
AMSTERDAM (Dow Jones)–Novartis AG (NVS) has a shortfall of its swine flu vaccine and won’t be able to meet its deadline to supply the Netherlands with a …
08 September » Swine flu prompts France to bid kisses adieu
San Francisco Chronicle
Now, “la bise,” the cheek-to-cheek peck that the French use to say hello or goodbye, has come under pressure from a globalized threat: swine flu. …
07 September » US races to get millions of swine flu doses ready
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sinovac’s swine flu vaccine won approval from China’s State Food and Drug Administration, according to a statement on the regulator’s Web site. …
06 September » What the swine flu is really teaching us
Examiner.com
Swine flu has been the number one news story and yes, people have died from this form of the flu, but it should not turn into a panic if we understand how …
05 September » Mass Vaccination Hubs Are Part of DC Swine Flu Plan
Washington Post
As cases of swine flu prompt more residents to seek care or vaccinations, officials and physicians don’t want hospitals to be inundated. …
04 September » Swine flu: Healthcare workers should wear N95 masks, IOM says
Los Angeles Times
Healthcare workers who come into direct contact with patients who are infected with the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus or who may be infected should wear N95 …
03 September » WHO expert says no doubt H1N1 vaccines will work
Reuters
Research on shots developed in response to H5N1 bird flu, which is more fatal than the pandemic variety but spreads much less easily between humans, …
02 September » China set to approve 1-dose swine flu vaccines
The Associated Press
BEIJING — China will soon approve domestically developed swine flu vaccines that manufacturers say can protect people against the virus with only one dose, …
01 September » Top 5 Ways College Kids Will Get Swine Flu
ABC News
By EMILY FRIEDMAN Forget about good grades and securing a date for homecoming, college students heading back to campus have a far bigger concern: swine flu. …
Issues of our time!
Our population is in the jet age. world travel, urbanization & lifestyle are very different during the 1918 flu pandemic. New emerging infectious diseases is well adopted to our present environment. Hand washing, social distancing & etiquette are disease prevention techniques centered on avoiding contact with the virus. We need to upgrade & use new technology in dealing with novel diseases. The sheer number of infections today would indicate that the cause of infection is indirect transmission of the disease is probably in public places like airports, supermarkets & others. However, traditional disinfectants used in hospitals are easily inactivated by organic matter, dirt & soil & their required method of application & toxicity is not adoptable to crowded places. For almost 20 years, in the Philippines, MDSDS is a liquid disinfectant not easily inactivated & with very low toxicity level that it can be sprayed to the environment without adverse effects to plants, animals & the environment, simply because it is biodegradable & to a great extent diluted with water. As most medical practitioners doubts the effectiveness on environment disinfection they agree that microbes on surfaces are most vulnerable on surfaces where they can easily be destroyed before causing any infection. Without doubt limiting or destroying physically the microbial population on infected surfaces will surely decrease disease transmissions thus protecting the population. Cleaning & disinfection is an effective, practical, inexpensive & safer method without side effects or dangers compared to exorbitant vaccines & medicines. This method is practiced everyday in hospitals & medical institutions to protect their facilities from infection. For whatever reasons why it is not emphasized as compared to 1918 protocols such as hand washing by the WHO & the CDC & the continued spread of the virus in the US is anybody’s guess! Are they really just selling vaccines? Allowing the virus to survive & spread increases its ability to mutate & hopefully it will spread at the WHO & CDC headquarters!
One of my sisters got infected with H1N1 or more commonly known as Swine Flu. Fortunately, she did not have very high fever and she was able to recover fast .
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i think that in asian countries the Swine Flu did not spread rapidly compared to those countries that are located in colder climates. we should still be very thankful that the swine flu did not cause massive infections.