Between 1.8 million and 5.7 million caught H1N1, as many as 21,000 were hospitalized and perhaps 800 died, according to data from the start of the outbreak in April through July.
Between 1.8 million and 5.7 million Americans caught pandemic H1N1 influenza this spring, as many as 21,000 were hospitalized, and perhaps 800 died, according to new estimates by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The revised numbers suggest that even larger numbers will become infected during this flu season. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
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Between 1.8 million and 5.7 million caught H1N1, as many as 21,000 were hospitalized and perhaps 800 died, according to data from the start of the outbreak in April through July.
Between 1.8 million and 5.7 million Americans caught pandemic H1N1 influenza this spring, as many as 21,000 were hospitalized, and perhaps 800 died, according to new estimates by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The revised numbers suggest that even larger numbers will become infected during this flu season. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Last week's 19 new child deaths is the biggest single-week jump since the H1N1 swine flu pandemic began. So far, 114 kids have died of the flu. (Source: WebMD Health)
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Justine Davies. The emergence of a swine influenza virus (H1N1) pandemic strain earlier this year prompted a huge worldwide effort to produce swine flu vaccines in time for the winter flu season. Justine Davies r.... (Source: Cell)
Swine flu cases rose almost 10% last week, figures from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Independent Nurse News)
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MORE patients with swine flu could get life-saving treatment in Scotland, it emerged yesterday, as cases of the virus surged. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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Outbreaks of infectious diseases have a way of grabbing the public imagination that outstrips any other medical event. The first decade of the 21st century has seen anthrax spores in the US mail, severe acute respiratory syndrome, avian influenza A H5N1, and now a pandemic of influenza A H1N1 (so called swine flu), which have generated a level of media and public attention that has at times bordered on the hysterical. (Source: LANCET)
Ground-glass opacities in one or both lungs with consolidation are the most common computed
radiographic and computed tomography images of patients with swine-origin influenza A, according to a study to be
published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. (Source: Modern Medicine)
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Waves of swine flu and flu-like illnesses are surging through Washington area schools, doubling the normal absence rate in several school systems and leaving some campuses with as many as one-fifth of students out sick. (Source: washingtonpost.com - Health)
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An H1N1 flu iPhone application has been unveiled by the Harvard Health Publications Division of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. (Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives)
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