Swine flu website crashes on launch as hospital cases reach 840. The website for the new national pandemic flu service in England crashed on launch today as the government announced that the number of new swine flu cases had doubled in a week and that 840 people were seriously ill in hospital.
People trying to access the site, which was officially launched at 3pm, were told it is "currently very busy and cannot deal with your request at this time". Viewers were told to try again "in a little time". The website crash is potentially extremely embarrassing for the government, which promised it would be launched only when it had been proved capable of coping with the expected traffic. The service is designed to take pressure off GPs, help patients diagnose themselves and gain access to antiviral drugs without formal prescriptions, although callers are issued with identification numbers. H1N1-Virus: Grippe, lauwarm. NYT: Swine flu changes summer camp life - The New York Times- ms.
U.S. buys 195 million doses of swine flu vaccine - Swine flu- ms. Swine Flu Vaccine Poses Challenges To FDA. Swine flu: intensive care beds will be swamped experts warn - Te. Swine flu ban on young and old at Mecca pilgrimage - Culture &am. Arab health ministers agreed on Wednesday to ban certain people including the elderly and young children from pilgrimage to Mecca in an effort to contain the spread of swine flu.
"Hajj and umrah will continue with some conditions," Ibrahim al-Kerdani, World Health Organisation spokesman in Egypt, said after a meeting of Arab health ministers in Cairo. "Some groups will be excluded from hajj: people over the age of 65, people under the age of 12 and people with chronic illnesses," he told reporters. The decision to keep the vulnerable groups away from the pilgrimage is yet to be ratified by the health ministers' governments, he said. Pneumonia and Respiratory Failure from Swine-Origin Influenza A. Severe Respiratory Disease Concurrent with the Circulation of H1. Rapid-Test Sensitivity for Novel Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Website - Articles » Blog Archive » Migrating Toward Meaningful. El 40% de la población recibirá la vacuna contra la gripe A · EL.
"La epidemia de la gripe A está controlada" en Euskadi. Así lo aseguró ayer el consejero de Sanidad del Gobierno vasco, Rafael Bengoa, al repasar en EITB la situación actual, calificada de "muy buena", y en la que existen 150 casos declarados. Sin embargo, se ha decidido que la vacunación preventiva alcanzará al 40% de la población, y a falta de determinar de forma definitiva los grupos de riesgo, se sabe que los niños, las mujeres embarazadas y los crónicos integrarán este colectivo. Si una persona no está incluida en los grupos de riesgo que se establezcan "no es ni siquiera aconsejable que intente vacunarse", afirmó Bengoa. Del total de afectados hasta ahora, sólo cuatro han requerido hospitalización y todos ellos reaccionan "muy bien" al tratamiento. De momento no se ha registrado ningún fallecimiento. What's best at beating swine flue, soap or gel?
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Hand sanitisers are artfully placed on office desks. In Welwyn and Hatfield, borough councillors have been issued with antibacterial handwash. Pandemic flu service to go live. Sir Liam Donaldson: "In the last few days the numbers don't seem to be increasing so much" The number of new swine flu infections in England has doubled in the past week, the government says.
There were an estimated 100,000 new cases with the under 14s the worst hit. It comes as the National Flu Service was launched, offering sufferers access to drugs on the phone and via the internet without the need to see a GP. Calls have already started flooding in and in the first few hours the website was receiving 2,600 hits a second - or 9.3m an hour. Kuwait reports 6 new swine flu cases - Healthcare - ArabianBusin. Kuwait’s Health Ministry reported on Wednesday six new swine flu cases, involving five citizens and an expatriate, bringing the total to 50 recorded cases.
The ministry's spokesman Dr. Yusuf Al-Nisuf told KUNA that lab reports came back positive for the H1N1 virus, and the six infectees were currently hospitalised and their conditions said to be stable. In trials for H1N1 vaccine, dosage is key. By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY The race to test a new pandemic flu vaccine is poised to begin, starting with trials in healthy adults and then, if no safety questions emerge, in children, federal officials said Wednesday.
The goal is to produce enough vaccine to protect at least 120 million people against an entirely new flu virus, H1N1, also known as swine flu, before flu season takes off in the fall. The new H1N1 vaccine, to be made by five manufacturers, will be produced using the same methods as seasonal vaccines, says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is sponsoring the trials. "We're carrying out these trials out of an abundance of caution," he says, "because it's a new (flu) strain we've never seen before and because we'd like to know the best dosage regimen. " Managers quietly confident as NHS battles swine flu pandemic. Emory University to test flu vaccines - Atlanta Business Chronic. Emory University said Wednesday it was picked to be part of several clinical studies investigating 2009 influenza vaccines, including two new H1N1 flu, or “swine flu,” vaccines.
The clinical trials will be conducted through the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In August, Emory will recruit healthy adults, seniors and children for the clinical trials, which have been hurried due to the possible fall resurgence of H1N1 flu infections that may also coincide with the circulation of new seasonal flu strains in the Northern Hemisphere.
The trials are expected to gather critical information that will allow the NIH to quickly evaluate the new vaccines to determine whether they are safe and effective in inducing protective immune responses. Volunteers sought for testing swine flu shots - Swine flu- msnbc. WASHINGTON — The government called Wednesday for several thousand volunteers to start rolling up their sleeves for the first swine flu shots, in a race to test whether a new vaccine really will protect against the virus before its expected rebound in the fall.
The first shots should go into volunteers’ arms by the second week of August. A network of medical centers around the country is enrolling for the series of studies directed by the National Institutes of Health. First, doctors will test different doses of the swine flu vaccine in healthy adults, including the elderly — two shots, given 21 days apart. If there are no immediate safety concerns, such as allergic reactions, the same testing quickly will begin in babies and children, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Severe flu pandemic could kill 63,000 in Scotland, says official. A severe flu pandemic could kill more than 63,000 people in Scotland within a few weeks and overwhelm mortuaries and crematoriums, an official study has concluded.
The document, released to the Guardian under freedom of information regulations, also warns that at least 5,100 people in Scotland could die even if the flu virus was relatively mild and infected only a quarter of the population. It warns that mortuaries, crematoriums and cemeteries could be forced to operate round the clock, with old warehouses, council buildings, refrigerated lorries and specialist inflatable mortuaries being requisitioned to temporarily store the dead. The previously unpublished study was written last year to help councils and health authorities plan for a pandemic, before swine flu hit the UK, leaving at least 31 people dead and infecting an estimated 85,000 people since April.
However, he stressed that the worst-case scenario was "very unlikely to happen. "You can't have swine flu" “Never assume” is a good maxim for life in general, but it seems particularly apt as we try to get to grips with the first major new disease to hit us for some time.
I immediately dismissed the possibility that I may have had swine flu when I suddenly developed a high temperature, headache, sore throat, and cough on the last day of attending a major oncology congress in Orlando, Florida. At the time (the end of May) only a small number of British people had developed the infection after holidaying in Mexico. I hadn’t been to Mexico, so I couldn’t have it. And as a freelance medical journalist and editor I can’t be ill—otherwise news stories don’t meet their deadlines, pages go empty, and I don’t get paid.
After downing a couple of ibuprofen pills I wrapped up some reports, finished my packing, and made my way to the airport. Having promised to act as news editor on the … Swine flu drug sales soar amid stockpiling. Schweinegrippe: Nicht mehr aufzuhalten - Der Kommentar - Gesells. El Gobierno propone a las Comunidades medidas para empresas, col. La ministra de Sanidad y Política Social, Trinidad Jiménez, ha anunciado esta tarde tras la reunión del Consejo Interterritorial de Salud, que reúne a los responsables de Sanidad de todas las comunidades autónomas, que el Gobierno incrementará en 2,4 millones el número de tratamientos antivirales. "Son un arma estratégica y terapéutica muy eficaz si se administran en las primeras 48 horas desde el contagio", ha señalado Jiménez, que ha vuelto a mandar un mensaje de tranquilidad a los ciudadanos por tres motivos principales: "el magnífico Sistema Nacional de Salud español, uno de los mejores del mundo", sus "magníficos profesionales" y la "coordinación" entre las autoridades sanitarias.
España tenía en un principio 10 millones de tratamientos antivirales completos. Hace unos días se anunció la compra de tres millones más, que se suman a los 2,4 millones anunciados este miércoles por Jiménez. En total, faltan por llegar al país 5,4 millones de tratamientos completos. Swine flu work absences 'triple in a week' Swine flu: symptoms could mask meningitis.
Swine flu: church uses 400-year-old plague laws to avoid sharing. Swine flu: how the numbers add up. The number of swine flu cases is rising rapidly and experts are warning in the worst-case scenario 30% - or one in three of the UK population - could become infected and up to 65,000 people could die this winter. These sound like big, scary numbers, but what do they actually mean and how have they been calculated? Companies could face staff shortage due to swine flu spread - He. Qatar’s Supreme Council of Health has warned that companies could face a major staff shortage due to the spread of swine flu. The majority of swine flu suffers in Qatar are between the ages of 25 to 29, according to The Peninsula. Dr Shazia Nadeem, head of Emergency Preparedness at the Communicable Diseases Control section of SCH, called on companies to develop a business community plan to help deal with a possible outbreak of the disease in the country.
Of the 42 cases in Qatar, she said, 14 percent had contracted the disease from an infected person. Qatar officials are waiting on a decision from an Arab health ministers’ meeting in Cairo on Wednesday to decide whether to issue a swine flu warning to hajj and umra pilgrims. Several Arab and Islamic countries have already issued warnings to the elderly, children and pregnant women and those suffering from chronic diseases not to travel to Saudi Arabia amid the H1N1 pandemic, reported the Gulf Times.
H1N1 Virus: Swine Flu Still Spreading Rapidly. When the World Health Organization announced on July 16 that it would stop issuing global counts of confirmed cases of the H1N1/09 virus (the new WHO-approved name differentiates the virus from older versions of H1N1), it wasn't because the disease had burned out. Far from it. Since the new flu virus was officially declared a pandemic on June 11, the disease has spread faster in six weeks than past pandemics had spread in six months. Virtually every nation in the world has been infected, with the U.S. alone — which has 263 confirmed deaths, more than any other country — estimated to have logged more than 1 million cases.
Although the good news is that most H1N1/09 illnesses have been extremely mild, the rapidity of its spread — and the fact that young people seem to be especially vulnerable — still worries global health officials. "We don't know if it will actually ever completely go away," says David Butler Jones, the public health chief of Canada, which has been unusually hard-hit. H1N1 Virus: Swine Flu Still Spreading Rapidly. Pulse - Telephone diagnosis of swine flu 'could lead to med. Swine Flu Presents Opportunities for Vaccine Makers And Others -
Jeff Stier Fellow, National Center For Public Policy Research Jeff Stier is Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, a Washington, DC think tank. Prior, he was Associate Director at the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), a public health organization. Mr. Stier specializes in food safety and nutrition (restaurant,...
A relatively small group of pharmaceutical companies includingGlaxoSmithKline, Roche and Sanofi-Aventis which make vaccines have the market cornered when it comes to the front lines of the global fight against swine flu. Because demand is likely to exceed early supplies for H1N1 vaccines, companies will be looking for help to allow supply to catch up to global demand. First swine flu vaccine in the world goes into human trials - GL. Eight Kuwaiti pilgrims get swine flu at umra - Healthcare - Arab. Kuwait’s health ministry has confirmed eight new cases of swine flu in citizens who returned from the minor umra pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. This raises the number of H1N1 cases in the country to 44, officials told the official news agency KUNA.
Swine Flu: Pregnancy and Other High Risks. Australia to begin first human test of swine flu vaccine - CNN.c. Swine flu: What we know and what we don’t know. Yet calculating risk is very hard. When there is a terrorist outrage, we are profoundly shaken, because it changes our view of what is safe – such as a bus journey. In terms of cold hard numbers, the July 7 bombings directly affected several thousand people, if you include the families of those killed or injured.
Yet a flu pandemic could take far more lives, and cause the country to grind to a halt, with a huge impact on the economy (estimated at between three and six per cent of GDP). Just two months of swine flu sniffles, and madness reigns. WIN Global Poll Finds Concern Of Swine Flu Decreasing Despite No. Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) July 21, 2009 WIN global poll finds concern for swine flu diminishing even though public feels a lack of preparation for a pandemic. Swine flu update: When can we expect a vaccine? - health - 21 Ju. School closings eyed as swine flu toll tops 700 - Swine flu- msn. GENEVA — Students across Europe may have their summer holidays extended, some Muslim nations are warning pregnant women not to attend the hajj and China is quarantining hundreds of foreign students. It's all part of a global effort to slow the spread of swine flu until a vaccine becomes widely available — but experts and governments are divided on how well the measures will really work.
The swine flu prepping controversy : Effect Measure. The reaction to our post on Sunday about preparing for the ongoing flu pandemic was mixed. Some thought it was right on target while others expressed dismay over what was perceived as minimizing the possible effects, especially as we have been talking for well over four years about the potentially pervasive nature of widespread absenteeism.