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19.09.2009, 09:25
With the swine flu pandemic still claiming lives across the world, the battle to fight it continues. Scientists in St. Petersburg are testing a new vaccine as their latest weapon against the virus.
11.06.2010, 14:48
Last year the global media told a wonderful scare story: swine flu was a pandemic and it was threatening the world. Now the UN’s health authority is being accused of fear mongering on the behalf of drug companies.
20.05.2009, 14:27
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Conversations about the swine flu tend to revolve around who has it, where it has appeared, what the symptoms are, and how to prevent it. But there's little conversation about the risks and havoc of the swine flu online.
18.10.2010, 23:04
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American food policy has resulted in increasing rates of obesity, particularly among lower-class and minority populations.
16.07.2009, 12:40
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The number of confirmed cases of swine flu has topped over a hundred thousand, with the World Health Organization calling the pandemic 'unstoppable', and suggesting mass vaccination.
28.04.2009, 17:22
Five years ago Professor Dmitry Lvov gave a detailed description of how a deadly pandemic flu virus was on the horizon. On Tuesday April 28, 2009, he spoke to RT about the outlook of a swine flu pandemic.
25.10.2009, 08:41
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Is swine flu really that dangerous? Are vaccinations really helpful, or just another source of revenue for drug companies? People on the streets of New York have mixed feelings on the issue.
02.11.2009, 23:09
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Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has called on the international community to help the country combat the swine flu epidemic which hit the country last week. Kiev is taking emergency measures to stop the outbreak.
15.12.2009, 22:50
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Health officials in the United States are recalling 800,000 swine flu vaccines intended for children.
24.07.2010, 03:26
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July 23 marks the final day of an international AIDS conference where scientists from around the world have worked to fight and cure the disease. At the same time some continue to deny the conventional wisdom about AIDS.
Published: 28 April, 2009, 21:27
The fact that the virus can travel from human to human doesn’t mean that a pandemic is inevitable, Tatyana Kolpakova from the World Health Organisation’s office in Russia said.
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A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that TAMIFLU-resistant flu does not make people any more or less sick. But researchers say they're still in dark as to why TAMIFLU-resistant infections are on the rise. A whopping 98 percent of this year's circulating H1N1 flu strains are IMMUNE to TAMIFLU, compared with only 12 percent during the 2007-2008 flu season. The trend is alarming enough that Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials have been huddling for the past week to consider whether to adjust the composition of the federal pandemic flu drug stockpile, of which 40 million treatment courses (80 percent) is TAMIFLU, says Robin Robinson, director of the Biomedical Advance Research and Development Authority (BARDA), an HHS arm that manages the stockpile.