(AP) — President Barack Obama declared the H1N1 swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed H1N1 treatment and protect noninfected patients. More than 1,000 people in the United States, including almost 100 children, have died from the strain of flu known [...]
(The New York Times / The Learning Network) What precautions should you take against the H1N1 flu? Should you get the vaccine? In this lesson, students identify and debunk some of the myths surrounding H1N1 flu, or swine flu, and the new vaccine for it. Click here for the full article.
According to the CDC, the emergency warning signs in children regarding the H1N1 virus:
Fast breathing or trouble breathing
Bluish skin color
Not drinking enough fluids
Not waking up or not interacting
Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
Fever with a rash
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(Health.com) It’s important to take steps to prevent yourself from getting the seasonal flu, as well as H1N1, commonly referred to as swine flu. If you already sneeze into your sleeve, wash your hands diligently, and avoid crowds where these viruses can easily spread, you’re on the right track. But you still may be putting [...]
(CNN / Health.com) The onslaught of information about H1N1 Swine Flu — be it playground rumors, employer signs telling you to cover your cough, memos from your kids’ school, or scary-sounding news reports — is making it pretty hard to figure out what you should be doing right now. Click here for an article that [...]
(AP / New York Times) About 1 in 5 U.S. children had a flu-like illness earlier this month — and most of those cases likely were H1N1 swine flu, according to a new CDC government health survey. The information comes from a household survey of more than 14,000 adults done in the first 11 days [...]
(CNN) Public health departments across the country are quickly running out of H1N1 vaccine / swine flu vaccine and don’t know when the next batches will arrive. “We wait by the door every day to see if H1N1 vaccine is going to come,” said Erin Sutton, spokesperson for the Virginia Beach Health Department in Virginia. [...]
(Reuters) – The U.S. government this week warned against the online marketing of unlicensed health remedies claiming to protect against H1N1 swine flu infection, including fake “Tamiflu” pills from India. One order, which arrived in an unmarked envelope from India, consisted of unlabeled white pills that contained talc and the common pain reliever acetaminophen, the [...]
(ABC News) Hospitals today began to receive the first doses of a H1N1 vaccine / Swine Flu vaccine designed to ward off a potential H1N1 flu pandemic — this, after months of anticipation and debate over who would be the first to be vaccinated. Full article here.
