Swine flu news by country

This section of the site brings you swine flu news for countries that have had some form of swine flu scare. As you will see this includes many regions of the world.

To see the lastest swine flu news for your country please select the relevent option from the navigation menu on the left side of this page.

Should the area or country you are interested in not be there please contact us to let us know and we will endeavour to add a news feed for that region.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 18:45:07 GMT

Designer Flu: How scientists made a killer virus airborne — and who should know
Science News
Strictly speaking, the Wisconsin group's transmissible virus is not H5N1 bird flu virus. Instead it is a composite of H5N1 and the H1N1 “swine flu” virus that caused a pandemic in 2009. To create the combination virus, the researchers replaced a ...

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Thu, 17 May 2012 10:10:18 GMT

Why Shutting Airports Is Not the Best Way to Halt a Global Flu Pandemic
Technology Review (blog)
(The Spanish flu was caused by the H1N1 flu virus that was also responsible for the 2009 swine flu outbreak.) One obvious idea is to close international airports to prevent, or at least dramatically reduce, the movement of potentially infected ...
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:48:42 GMT

Drugmakers give swine flu vaccines a second shot
Economic Times
The 2009 global outbreak of swine flu, or H1N1, claimed over 17000 lives including 2725 in India between May 2009 and November 2010, when the government asked local manufacturers to come up with affordable preventatives. Five Indian companies -- Cadila ...

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Tue, 08 May 2012 15:55:55 GMT

UBC researchers make flu vaccine discovery, could eliminate need for seasonal ...
Global Edmonton
VANCOUVER - University of BC researchers led a team of scientists that have found that swine flu vaccine triggers antibodies that protect against many flu viruses including the lethal bird-flu strain. The results support the idea that there is a way to ...

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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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Thu, 17 May 2012 18:10:02 GMT

Sanitised truth behind clean hands
Donnybrookmail
Its transition to essential personal accessory began after the swine flu H1N1 outbreak of 2009, when sales of antibacterial gels and wipes soared in the US. The market research company Nielsen reported that, in the 24 weeks before October 3 that year, ...

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Sat, 19 May 2012 08:36:42 GMT

Ten years marks time of reflection and goal setting for Baarsches
Minnesota Farm Guide
Over the past decade, hog farmers have dealt with the H1N1 flu that was misnamed and led to a rapid decrease in pork demand. The swine industry learned to control diseases, like circovirus, and rapidly increased pork supplies.
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:18:57 GMT

deadly pandemic a matter of when, not if
Sydney Morning Herald
The modern world is inadvertently setting itself up to be increasingly vulnerable to a new super disease. To understand how vulnerable, consider the deadly flu pandemic of 1918. It began towards the end of World War I and took many months to spread ...

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Thu, 10 May 2012 21:09:16 GMT

DARLING INTERNATIONAL INC - 10-Q - MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
The emergence of diseases such as 2009 H1N1 flu (initially know as "Swine Flu") and H5N1 avian influenza ("Bird Flu") that are in or associated with animals and have the potential to also threaten humans has created concern that such diseases could ...

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Mon, 14 May 2012 19:35:07 GMT

'Barcoding' viruses could help detect mutated strains
CNET
Using a new type of test developed at the University of Leeds "might have been a way to identify how lethal the 2009 swine flu pandemic was going to be, lessening worldwide panic," John Barr of the university's Faculty of Biological Sciences said in a ...

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