...prepare for the next super-flu. The WHO on Saturday asked all countries to step up detection of this strain of A/H1N1 swine flu and will reconsider on Tuesday whether to raise the pandemic threat level, in turn triggering additional actions...
...sickened 60 percent of the community. One of those cases, a 5-year-old boy who has since recovered, had the H1N1 swine flu virus. Other samples have disappeared, Kuyek says, and most people were never tested. Influenza strains that have...
...SITKA - While there so far have been no cases of the H1N1 (swine) flu in Alaska, the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium...of our patients are developing the symptoms of the H1N1 (swine) flu. If you have any flu symptoms - fever, body aches...
...Department of Health and Social Services assured Alaska residents there was "no probable or confirmed cases" of the H1N1 swine flu virus in the state in its daily public update of the virus's spread. At the time, a probable swine flu carrier...
...laboratory-confirmed cases of novel H1N1 (swine) flu, including one that required...Laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 (swine) flu only give a partial picture of...Updated information on the novel H1N1 (swine) flu can be found at www.pandemicflu...
...of office. Hurlburt said he expects his most pressing duty will be ensuring the state is prepared to respond to the H1N1 swine flu outbreak, if need be, but then to also find ways to deal with some of Alaska's ongoing public health issues...
...to stay updated on the current situation, including vaccine supplies. The CDC lists five priority groups for the H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine during a time of limited vaccine availability: 1) Pregnant women; 2) People who live with or provide...
SITKA - When supplies are in stock, the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium now is making H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine available for all of its patients. Previously, SEARHC clinics had very limited supplies of the vaccine and the vaccine...
...Health and Social Services officials said Friday that a sample taken May 15 has been tested and confirmed as the novel H1N1 swine flu virus. State officials had earlier announced the first case on May 28, also of a sample taken earlier. Three of...
...including one new case in Juneau among Southeast Alaska's five new ones. Alaska's first official cases of the H1N1 swine flu was in Fairbanks in May, and with most of the state's early cases concentrated in the Interior. Southeast and the...
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