The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is to hold an emergency debate and inquiry this month into the “influence” exerted by drugmakers on the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) global H1N1 flu campaign. The resolution to launch the emergency inquiry was approved by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and [...]
The fact is that well designed, comfortable and clean workplace is not the least of the factors in everyday life. We live, we work and it’s no wonder that sometimes some of us have the risk to be in danger of illness with using the same computers, printers, copiers, and telephones every day many people [...]
In connection with some 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of swine flu, the west-coast school instituted a blog to help provide information to students about the sudden and dramatic spread of the A(H1N1) virus on campus just days into the new school term, SAN FRANCISCO, California (AFP) reported. It is assumed [...]
US passes million swine flu cases since the H1N1 virus emerged nearly three months ago, BBC reports. First UK swine flu victim was woman aged 38 died in a Scottish hospital. Swine flu has now infected almost 500 people in Scotland alone, out of 1,261 cases in the UK. How does novel H1N1 virus spread? [...]
According to the World Health Organization a swine flu pandemic — the first global flu epidemic in 41 years — as infections in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere climbed to nearly 30,000 cases. The long-awaited pandemic announcement is scientific confirmation that a new flu virus has emerged and is quickly circling [...]
Public health advice and messages – If you have returned from an affected area and have flu-like symptoms, stay at home, phone your GP or NHS Direct Wales and you will be assessed and receive treatment if necessary. Do not go into your GP surgery or Accident and Emergency department unless you are advised to [...]
If you are planning to travel abroad next month HPA (the Health Protection Agency recommends keeping some swine flu precautions because 42 countries have now reported confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus, the number of cases of swine flu around the world to more than 11,100. and there have been 86 deaths. The number of [...]
TWO Scots were in isolation in hospital undergoing tests for swine flu last night as the global health scare spread to the UK,news.scotsman.com reports. The Scottish Government said the couple, believed to be from the Forth Valley area, fell ill shortly after returning from a holiday in Mexico last Tuesday and were immediately taken to [...]
