Recent Posts Tagged With 'centers for disease control'

• Swine Flu Update: November 4

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 22:14 in Canada, pregnant, north korea, south korea, alberta, cdc, vaccine, cfr, centers for disease control, swine flu, h1n1, case fatality report

  I was able to get my H1N1 flu shot last Saturday! My State Health Department has a hotline for information on the H1N1 vaccine; since I am in a high priority group I called every few days to check on the availability. I think I got to be on a first n...

• Swine Flu Update: October 10

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 22:27 in children, Microsoft, pregnant, autism, cdc, mmr, vaccine, centers for disease control, congenital heart defect, chd, emory, congenital heart disease

  The H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine is starting to be distributed nationwide, and just in time, it seems. Pregnant women have been hit especially hard by this bug and they are one of the priority groups that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends re...

• Swine Flu Update: September 24

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 05:15 in flu, influenza, cdc, vaccine, face mask, h5n1, centers for disease control, health canada, ottawa citizen, flumist, sanitizer, swine flu

  Influenza loves crowds, and H1N1 has (literally) found a captive audience:  Two prisoners in the Federal Penitentiary in Memphis, Tennessee have the Swine Flu. Obviously the prison has been quarantined and the two prisoners segregated from the rest ...

• Swine Flu Update: September 8

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 06:03 in flu, influenza, cdc, washington state university, centers for disease control, congenital heart defect, chd, contagious, emory, h1n1

  We can be pretty stupid at times. The Centers for Disease Control H1N1 Flu website states, “Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.” Yet where will a good number of Americans...

• Swine Flu Update: Thursday, August 20

  Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 01:30 in chronic illness, vaccine, centers for disease control, swine flu, h1n1

  Swine Flu has yet another name. Swine Flu wasn’t good enough; and apparently H1N1 makes the International Union of English Letters and Numbers nervous. An article in the New England Journal of Medicine recently gave it the name S-OIV, short for...

• Swine Flu Update: July 10, 2009

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 05:25 in flu, pandemic, cdc, vaccine, centers for disease control, swine flu, h1n1

  New information about the Swine Flu (H1N1) has raised eyebrows recently. Some hedge funds and airports are preparing for the flu – not as preparation for an anticipated natural disaster, but focusing mainly on how to keep their operations going...