With no suspected swine flu deaths since Wednesday and fewer people turning up at hospitals, Mexican officials were guardedly optimistic that the worst was over in the outbreak’s epicenter. Cases outside Mexico suggested the new swine flu strain is weaker than feared. But governments moved quickly anyway to ban flights
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Health departments get mixed marks for using Web to communicate about flu crisis, study finds (EurekAlert!)
( RAND Corporation ) A new study gives state and local health departments get mixed marks for efforts to convey information about the H1N1 virus to the public using their Web sites immediately after US officials declared a public health emergency in April. While most state health departments posted information about the outbreak within 24 hours of the federal announcement, just one-third of the …
Should the Health Minister Resign?
Bangkok Post : The Puea Thai party has called on Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai to resign, saying he had failed in his duty to control the outbreak of A(H1N1) influenza. The disease has killed seven people and the number confirmed infections had soared to 2,272 on Monday. Puea Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparit said the government was not doing its job properly. It was too concerned with its image. “There will be an eighth H1N1-related fatality in the country and I’ll put my job
Spread of Swine Flu Puts Japan in Crisis Mode
The widening outbreak is a particular shock to this hygiene-obsessed country, which has been harder hit than any other country outside North America.
DOH Updates Number Of H1N1 Cases Citywide (NY1 News)
The city health department says 56 people have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of H1N1 since the outbreak began. The total number of cases in the city now stands at 240.