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Tue, 15 May 2012 13:08:56 GMT

Mums hardest hit as nasty flu on way
Herald Sun
Health authorities have so far detected swine flu, as well as another strain mostly affecting young children, and a deadly one affecting the elderly and unwell. The survey of 1200 Australians found three in five mums had cancelled plans in order to ...
Fri, 18 May 2012 14:23:28 GMT

Ballarat prepares for flu season
Ballarat Courier
Dr Hampson said swine flu, which was predominant in Australia during 2009 to 2011, was currently fading, but would not disappear completely. “What I expect to see is some changes in that virus and it reappearing in a different form,” he said.
Fri, 18 May 2012 09:58:18 GMT

Coroner Evelyn Vicker finds death of teenager Andrew Allan was avoidable
Perth Now
A post-mortem found he had died from staphylococcal sepsis, as a complication of the swine flu virus. When Mrs Allan called the hospital the next day to report Andrew's death, no medical record of the visit could be found. Mr Swoboda admitted he did ...

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Wed, 16 May 2012 00:18:57 GMT

deadly pandemic a matter of when, not if
Sydney Morning Herald
And Australia is not set up as well as it could be to deal with it. The movie Contagion depicted the terrifying scenario. A new highly deadly virus springs up somewhere and spreads around the globe in hours. It kills hundreds of millions of people.

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Mon, 14 May 2012 13:12:39 GMT

Discover Magazine (blog)
Ready, set, trial: why pandemics catch us out and how to prepare for them
Discover Magazine (blog)
This oversight means that when big epidemics hit, like the swine flu pandemic of 2009, scientists lose valuable chances to find more about these illnesses. A new consortium is out to change that. I wrote about their work, and the problem of slow ...

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Wed, 16 May 2012 17:01:48 GMT

Science policy: Beyond the great and good
Nature.com
During his five years in the post, John Beddington, a population biologist, has navigated the 2009 swine-flu outbreak and the volcanic ash cloud in 2010, limited the damage from controversies over climate science and drugs policy, and defined his own ...

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Wed, 02 May 2012 05:41:29 GMT

The West Australian
10 winter health hazards
The West Australian
... with 14 Australians dying from flu-related conditions last year, up to 3500 people dying from complications and tens of thousands hospitalised. The H1N1 strain of the flu (sometimes called swine flu) that swept the world in 2009 is still virulent ...
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:55:57 GMT

Sydney Morning Herald
Country of the fair go drags its heels
Sydney Morning Herald
Our aid also delivers a lasting dividend to Australia. We may be an island nation but we are not immune to the world's ills. As swine flu demonstrated, a disease outbreak in Mexico one day can close schools in our suburbs the next.

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Wed, 09 May 2012 05:27:43 GMT

Inquest told sick teen turned away from hospital
ABC Online
He died hours later from a combination of pneumonia and swine flu. Andrew's mother Kylie Allan told the inquest her son had been sick for days and was vomiting, had diarrhoea and a high temperature when she took him to hospital.

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Wed, 09 May 2012 09:29:54 GMT

Parliamentary panel on health finds 31 new drugs approved for marketing ...
pharmabiz.com
In order to scrutinize new drug approvals, the Committee sought details [sponsors; pre-approval phase III clinical trials; overseas regulatory status in US, Canada, Britain, Australia and European Union; indications; names of experts if consulted and ...

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