http://www.flupandemicalert.com Flu pandemic news and information Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:44:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The closer an influenza patient is to death during a severe pandemic where medical resources would be scarce, the more likely they'll be excluded from admission to an intensive care unit. That's the recommendation from a task force studying ethical dilemmas during pandemics. Months before the world was introduced to the ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2009/09/01/medical-rationing-a-must-for-severe-pandemic/ Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine are looking for healthy adults to test a new swine flu vaccine mixed with an ingredient that could boost people's immune response. Adding such a chemical adjuvant to the vaccine could help stretch limited supplies by making a single dose more potent, researchers believe. ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2009/09/01/swine-flu-vaccine-trial-seeks-volunteers/ Students heading back to class Tuesday will be greeted with a continued emphasis on hygiene as school districts look to prevent or limit the instances of swine flu. Meanwhile, schools and health departments continue to prepare for a possible pandemic of the H1N1 virus, creating and bolstering contingency plans in ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2009/09/01/green-bay-school-districts-prep-for-swine-flu/ As children across Europe go back to class and staff return from vacation, governments are keeping a watchful eye on the H1N1 virus and are preparing for possible vaccinations, home schooling and the prospect of widespread absenteeism. For now, governments have resisted closing schools preemptively, judging that the virus has not ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2009/09/01/europe-braces-for-swine-flus-potential/ Fears a couple that just returned from Bangladesh could have avian flu are inaccurate, according to a Toronto hospital. The elderly couple was admitted to Toronto East General Hospital Tuesday night after complaining of flu-like symptoms and apparently isolated. However speculation that they could be suffering from a human form of the H5N1 virus is unfounded, the ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/03/19/toronto-bird-flu-fears-puts-couple-in-isolation/ Efforts to contain bird flu are failing in Indonesia, increasing the possibility that the virus may mutate into a deadlier form, the leading U.N. veterinary health body warned. The H5N1 bird flu virus is entrenched in 31 of the countrys 33 provinces and will cause more human deaths, the U.N. Food ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/03/19/indonesia-rampant-bird-flu-raises-pandemic-risks/ The USA's flu epidemic continued to grow last week, with cases mounting in every state and a dozen new deaths among children, the government's leading flu expert said Friday. Altogether 22 children have died of flu so far, with widespread flu activity reported in 49 states, up from 44 last week, ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/02/24/us-flu-epidemic-rises/ Vietnam's Preventive Medicine and Environment Department has said some people hospitalized recently are suspected of having contracted bird flu, local newspaper Youth reported on Friday. Specimens from the people, including a seven-year-old child from northern Hai Duong province, are being tested for bird flu virus strain H5N1. The child is under ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/02/24/some-vietnamese-suspectedly-infected-with-bird-flu/ A week after lifting the ban on the sale of poultry products, the state government on Monday suddenly issued an alert on the spread of bird flu among human beings. The health department has asked health officials to keep a watch on possible human contraction of the H5N1 virus. "We will ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/02/24/bird-flu-alert-for-human-infections-raised-in-india/ An epidemic of avian influenza in West Bengal, India has the Indian "government in panic mode", according to the Times of India Web site. And with good reason: 15 million of West Bengal's 80 million people are crammed into its capital city, Kolkata (Calcutta), which is a petri dish of poverty, ... http://www.flupandemicalert.com/2008/01/30/india-influenza-outbreak-portends-pandemic/