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As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.
With permission from the patients, [...]
Indeed, be not complacent in this regard, but continue onward with diligence and patience. The vaccine I wouldn’t touch with a 10 meter cattle prod, but the tactic of separation or “social distancing” is still, IMHO, the best method for decreasing the risk of infection. And get some Sambucol, it really works well.
H1N1 cases [...]
Another new swine flu virus has made the leap to humans, though U.S. officials say it seems almost certain the virus hit a dead end.
The Centers for Disease Control reported Friday that a child from Iowa became infected with a new swine flu virus in September, though the case didn’t come to light until November.
The [...]
About 22 million Americans have become ill with pandemic H1N1 influenza in the past six months and 3,900 have died, according to new estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The number of pediatric deaths — about 540 — is four times as high as the number that physicians, hospitals and health departments had [...]
More than a third of American youth of military age are unfit for service, mainly because they are too fat or sickly, the Army Times reports, quoting the latest Pentagon figures.
Most of the rest are too dumb or have used too many drugs to qualify, the study shows.
The report says 35% of the 31 [...]
Contaminated fresh ground beef caused a possible E. coli outbreak that killed two people and sent 16 others to hospitals, federal health officials said Monday.
Twenty-eight people may have become ill after eating beef produced by Fairbank Farms of Ashville, N.Y., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. All but three of the suspected infections [...]
Just remember, “Social Distancing”, i.e physical separation from the public will be the most essential tool for avoiding infection, not a vaccine.
Swine flu is causing unprecedented illness for so early in the fall — including a worrisome count of child deaths — and the government warned Friday that vaccine supplies will be even more scarce [...]
I would consider the cares and concerns of these parents to be prudent, and not irrational by any stretch of the imagination. What idiot would even say such a thing!? Ahh…government officials of course. And I wonder if Ms. Sebelius would be willing to be held accountable for any damage done by the vaccine, since [...]
A national campaign to inoculate tens of millions of Americans against H1N1 influenza began Monday, with health care workers in Indiana and Tennessee targeted as the first recipients, federal health authorities said.
“I think the world has watched history unfold,” Dr. Judy Monroe, Indiana’s state health commissioner, told reporters at Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis.
Earlier Monday, the [...]
Swine flu vaccinations may begin in three weeks, earlier than previously anticipated, after the first U.S. tests found a single shot to be effective in eight to 10 days, U.S. health officials said.
The first shots may be available by the end of this month and administered to patients the first week of October, said Nancy [...]
Almost three-quarters (73%) of American colleges and universities are reporting cases of influenza-like illnesses among students, with the highest rates in the Southeast and Midwest, the American College Health Association says.
There were 4,045 new flu-like illness cases between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4 among 204 schools taking part in voluntary reporting, the new data show.
Most [...]
Almost three-quarters (73%) of American colleges and universities are reporting cases of influenza-like illnesses among students, with the highest rates in the Southeast and Midwest, the American College Health Association says.
There were 4,045 new flu-like illness cases between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4 among 204 schools taking part in voluntary reporting, the new data show.
Most [...]
by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, September 4, 2009
Iowa public health officials have acknowledged the existence of a blank template entitled FACILITY QUARANTINE ORDER in the case of a Novel Influenza A H1N1 pandemic. The official press release states, however, that there is no draft or text of a “Quarantine Order” by the Iowa Department of Public [...]
by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, September 4, 2009
Iowa public health officials have acknowledged the existence of a blank template entitled FACILITY QUARANTINE ORDER in the case of a Novel Influenza A H1N1 pandemic. The official press release states, however, that there is no draft or text of a “Quarantine Order” by the Iowa Department of Public [...]
by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, September 4, 2009
Iowa public health officials have acknowledged the existence of a blank template entitled FACILITY QUARANTINE ORDER in the case of a Novel Influenza A H1N1 pandemic. The official press release states, however, that there is no draft or text of a “Quarantine Order” by the Iowa Department of Public [...]
For most people, August is a month for swimming pools and summer vacations, with the aching misery of fall and winter flu outbreaks still safely distant.
This year, however, public health experts say the H1N1 flu that emerged in April is poised to return with a vengeance much earlier than the regular seasonal flu — possibly [...]
Ten percent of the freshman class at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy has swine flu, and that number could rise in the coming days as more test results come in.
”We were expecting to see the number go up before it came back down because we had a lot of tests out still,” Petty Officer Ryan [...]
The last time the government embarked on a major vaccine campaign against a new swine flu, thousands filed claims contending they suffered side effects from the shots. This time, the government has already taken steps to head that off.
Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu [...]
Sixty-seven cadets at the Air Force Academy have confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza — the so-called swine flu — and another 30 are showing symptoms of the highly contagious virus, the academy said Tuesday.
None of the cadets has required hospitalization.
All 97 are incoming freshmen, known as “Doolies” in academy slang. They are in isolation while [...]
A Milwaukee adolescent is the fifth person to die of swine flu in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee Health Commissioner Bevan Baker said Tuesday the victim was an adolescent with a common underlying medical condition who died over the last 24 hours at a health care facility.
Two adults and one adolescent in Milwaukee had already died from the virus [...]
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday the strain of E. coli found in a sample of raw cookie dough collected at a Nestle USA manufacturing plant does not match the strain that has been linked to a 30-state outbreak, and they aren’t sure how the dough was contaminated.
The FDA and the federal Centers for [...]
DEERFIELD, Ill., June 12, 2009 — Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) announced today that it has completed testing and evaluation of the A/H1N1 influenza virus and is now in full-scale production of a commercial A/H1N1 vaccine using its Vero cell culture technology. Baxter received an A/H1N1 strain from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and [...]
Download PDF at: Wikileaks
The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is the peak body for the controlling the spread of “swine flu”, or H1N1 Mexican influenza in the United States. This document presents information on the spread of the disease.
The US disease prevention center claims the newly-spread potentially-fatal strain of swine flu virus may have originated from California.
The Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) said on Saturday that the state preceded Mexico, the alleged source of the virus, in reporting cases of the affliction.
“As we do our investigations here in the US, we [...]
A 23-month-old US toddler became the first confirmed swine flu death outside of Mexico as authorities around the world struggled to contain a growing global health menace that also spread to Germany and Austria.
The death of a child in Texas was confirmed Wednesday by Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control [...]
For years we have been saying that “separation is crucial.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed cases of swine flu in eight students at a New York preparatory school, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday.Swine flu is usually diagnosed only in pigs or people in regular contact with them.
Swine flu is usually [...]
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For years we have been saying that “separation is crucial.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed cases of swine flu in eight students at a New York preparatory school, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday.Swine flu is usually diagnosed only in pigs or people in regular contact with them.
Swine flu is usually [...]
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The story from CNN.com
U.S. medical experts investigating a novel swine flu outbreak awaited samples Thursday night from Mexico, where a respiratory illness has killed as many as 20 people.
Seven cases of a previously undetected strain of swine flu have been confirmed in humans in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. [...]
A passenger on Northwest Airlines Corp. Flight 51 from Frankfurt to Detroit on March 10 was found to have tuberculosis, the airline said today.
The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta is attempting to contact 17 passengers seated near the infected person, CDC spokeswoman Shelly Diaz said.
“The risk of TB transmission is very low,” she said.
The [...]
Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday.
CDC researchers said 98 percent of all flu samples from the H1N1 strain were resistant to Roche AG’s Tamiflu, a pill [...]
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Supplies against Swine Flu These are some supplies you should consider acquiring, wherever you can obtain them from, but you should act quickly because I suspect they will be going fast.
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