... conditions, the New Mexico Department of Health said. The new deaths bring to 36 the number of New Mexicans who have died of confirmed cases of swine flu since April. Those deaths include eight children. Other swine-flu deaths announced Wednesday include four Bernalillo County residents, all ... full story
... conditions, the New Mexico Department of Health said. The new deaths bring to 36 the number of New Mexicans who have died of confirmed cases of swine flu since April. Those deaths include eight children. Other swine-flu deaths announced Wednesday include four Bernalillo County residents, all ... full story
... operating even if flu keeps a lot of workers out of the office. In light of startling new statistics released last week — the CDC said swine flu has sickened 22 million and killed nearly 4,000, including 540 children in the United States since April — here's how three companies ... full story
... prompted companies of all sizes to weigh how to accommodate sick workers while keeping the business running. President Barack Obama has declared the swine flu situation a national emergency, and federal agencies recommend that businesses remain flexible and let sick workers stay home. Congress ... full story
Friday, November 13, 2009 UNM Freshman With Swine Flu Dies By Olivier Uyttebrouck Journal Staff Writer An 18-year-old University of New Mexico freshman hospitalized with flu symptoms died this week, even as health officials reported a continued decline in H1N1 cases statewide. Raymond Plotkin ... full story
... objectors to vaccines, according to Chris Minnick, spokesperson for the state Department of Health. The reasons for not wanting to get a swine flu vaccine are varied, however. Besides being against vaccinations, others just choose to opt for alternative health methods in dealing with disease ... full story
... ; says Animal Humane's chief veterinarian, Dr. Michael Neal. “There's new attention to it because everyone's concerned about human swine flu.” Canine flu is endemic in Colorado, so “it's no stretch” to believe it has arrived in New Mexico, Neal says. It ... full story
Thursday, November 05, 2009 Society bitten by its own mores in 'Flea' By Aurelio Sanchez Journal Staff Writer Fears of swine flu or another unseen unpredictable pandemic killer seem rife today, so a play like Naomi Wallace's "One Flea Spare" seems timely, though it's set in ... full story
Thursday, November 05, 2009 Swine Flu Kills Two Children By Olivier Uyttebrouck Journal Staff Writer Two children were among six New Mexicans who died of swine flu in the seven-day period ending Wednesday, but the number of people seeking medical care for flu symptoms continued to decline, health ... full story
... , November 04, 2009 Around New Mexico Berry Meets With Flu Experts Mayor-elect Richard Berry met with about a dozen experts on the H1N1 swine flu virus Tuesday, ahead of taking office on Dec. 1. He said he wants to ensure he and the city are prepared to help combat the virus. "I want ... full story
Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170,000 doses of swine flu vaccine while authorities investigate reports of allergic reactions among recipients, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday.
Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170,000 swine flu vaccines after six reports of serious allergic reactions among recipients, but there are no similar reports from other countries, pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday.
A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest.
A panda research center in northwestern China has been closed to visitors as a precaution to protect the endangered species from catching swine flu, state media reported on Tuesday.
Moving company owner Michael Stamm thinks if New Hampshire wants to mandate paid sick days for his business, New Hampshire should pay for them, not him.
Britain's authority on etiquette says it's more hygienic to exchange kisses on the cheek than to shake hands - so the swine flu pandemic should not make people afraid of kissing under the mistletoe this holiday season.
Saudi health officials announced the first deaths from swine flu of this year's annual pilgrimage to Mecca, as four pilgrims succumbed to the disease soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia.
Holiday travelers waited a little longer to book their flights this year, likely holding out for better deals and waiting to see if they would still have a job. And some aren't going at all.
The World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear.
China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.
Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu - most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms - have failed to contain the disease.
The runners-up to Merriam-Webster's 2009 Word of the Year (admonish), with definitions from the publisher's collegiate dictionary and, when applicable, the news event or story that generated the interest in the word:
China's health minister said Wednesday his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of inhabitants of the world's most populous country by year's end.
Delta Air Lines and its alliance partners said Wednesday they are making a billion dollar offer to lure loss-making Japan Airlines from its affiliation with American Airlines.
Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
Flu drug developer BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Tuesday it plans to sell as many as 5.75 million new shares of stock.
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Sun An, originally from Korea, covers her face with a tissue, as a precaution against the Swine Flu virus, as she waits for her incoming sister arriving from Korea at the Bradley Terminal at the Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Nov 24, 7:17 PM EST
Swine flu shots are advertised outside of Airport MD at Miami International Airport in Miami Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Nov 24, 6:35 PM EST
Nurse Marcel Giguere, right, gives a swine flu shot to Yoanet Ramirez of Miami, left, at Airport MD at Miami International Airport in Miami Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Nov 24, 6:35 PM EST
Swine flu shots are advertised at Airport MD at Miami International Airport in Miami Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Nov 24, 6:35 PM EST
Nurse Marcel Giguere, right, gives a swine flu shot to Sandra Ghisays of Miami, left, at Airport MD at Miami International Airport in Miami Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Ghisays was at the airport to drop off a friend who was traveling. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Nov 24, 6:34 PM EST
A traveler wheels luggage past one of many hand sanitizer dispensers hung on walls at Logan International Airport in Boston Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Thanksgiving is typically followed by at least a modest bump in early seasonal flu cases, according to reports from the past few years. But this, of course, is not a typical year. Swine flu is a new virus that accounts for nearly all flu cases right now. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) Nov 24, 6:32 PM EST
A couple wearing masks for protection from the swine flu rolls their luggage after flying in from Puerto Rico at Logan International Airport in Boston Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) Nov 24, 6:31 PM EST
A traveler wears a mask for protection against the swine flu as he rolls his luggage after flying in from Puerto Rico at Logan International Airport in Boston Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) Nov 24, 6:29 PM EST
Lines of travelers wait at security at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Nov 24, 4:00 PM EST
A traveler arrives at San Francisco International Airport in front of a health sign in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Nov 24, 3:58 PM EST
Antibacterial hand gel is shown on display next to headache medicine at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Nov 24, 3:56 PM EST
A visitor from Japan, who wish not to be identified, wears a mask for health reasons at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Nov 24, 3:55 PM EST
Ebony Bennett, right, from Jersey City, New Jersey, holds her son Jayden Carroll, 1, at the Greyhound Bus Station in Washington, on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, while waiting to board a bus to North Carolina to visit her father for Thanksgiving. "I'm not too worried about us getting the flu while traveling," says Bennett, "[Jayden] had a flu shot so hopefully we'll be ok." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Nov 24, 1:50 PM EST
Nurse Margaret England of the Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice draws some H1N1 vaccine during a swine flu clinic in Montpelier, Vt., Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot) Nov 23, 4:22 PM EST
Ryan Damm, 19, a swine flu patient whose life was saved by using a lung-bypass technology called ECMO, sees his physician, Dr. Jeff DeMare at Children's Hospital of Omaha in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients, by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) Nov 23, 3:19 PM EST
Ryan Damm, 19, a swine flu patient whose life was saved by using a lung-bypass technology called ECMO, sees his physician, Dr. Jeff DeMare at Children's Hospital of Omaha in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, as his mother Susie Damm watches. A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients, by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) Nov 23, 3:18 PM EST
Ryan Damm, 19, a swine flu patient whose life was saved by using a lung-bypass technology called ECMO, sees his physician, Dr. Jeff DeMare at Children's Hospital of Omaha in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, as his mother, Susie Damm, watches. A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients, by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) Nov 23, 3:18 PM EST
Ryan Damm, 19, a swine flu patient whose life was saved by using a lung-bypass technology called ECMO, sees his physician, Dr. Jeff DeMare at Children's Hospital of Omaha in Omaha, Neb., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients, by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) Nov 23, 3:16 PM EST
Kylee Nissley, 6 months, of Middletown, Pa., is comforted by her mother Brandi Nissley as she cries after she was given the H1N1 vaccine injection in her leg Dauphin County State Health Center in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Nov 20, 3:11 PM EST
Kaleb Nissley, 3, of Middletown, Pa., is given the H1N1 nasal spray vaccine by Stephanie Gellatly with the Department of Health as he is held by her mother Brandi Nissley at the Dauphin County State Health Center in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Nov 20, 2:56 PM EST
Sky Byrem, 7, of Annville, Pa., is given the H1N1 vaccine by Jennifer Shirk with the Department of Health as she is held by her mother Christina Bohr, left, at the Dauphin County State Health Center in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Nov 20, 2:56 PM EST
French police escort fans of Paris St. Germain at Aubagne railway station, near Marseille, southern France, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, ahead of a League One soccer match between Olympique Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, at the Velodrome Stadium. Police clashed with Paris Saint-Germain and Marseilles fans after a game was postponed last month because of an outbreak of swine flu in the Parisian team. The teams' fans clashed in Marseille after the postponement was announced about six hours before kickoff on Oct. 25. Nearly a dozen people were injured.(AP Photo/Claude Paris) Nov 20, 12:41 PM EST
French police riot officers escort fans of Paris St. Germain as they leave Aubagne railway station, near Marseille, southern France, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 ahead of a League One soccer match between Olympique Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, at the Velodrome Stadium. Police clashed with Paris Saint-Germain and Marseilles fans after a game was postponed last month because of an outbreak of swine flu in the Parisian team. The teams' fans clashed in Marseille after the postponement was announced about six hours before kickoff on Oct. 25. Nearly a dozen people were injured. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) Nov 20, 12:32 PM EST
A French riot police officer searches fans of Paris Saint-Germain at Aubagne railway station, near Marseille, southern France, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, ahead of a League One soccer match between Olympique Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, at the Velodrome Stadium. Police clashed with Paris Saint-Germain and Marseilles fans after a game was postponed last month because of an outbreak of swine flu in the Parisian team. The teams' fans clashed in Marseille after the postponement was announced about six hours before kickoff on Oct. 25. Nearly a dozen people were injured. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) Nov 20, 12:27 PM EST
An ampoule of the Hungarian made Fluval-P, H1N1 vaccine is taken from the box, in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Hungarian authorities announced that the H1N1 flu has officially reached epidemic proportions in the country as the number reporting symptoms of the virus rose sharply. The Hungarian government has ordered six million doses of vaccines for the Hungarian population of ten million. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky) Nov 20, 6:21 AM EST
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