Influenza

"It is still much greater than we would normally see this time of year." A team at flu test maker Quest Diagnostics analyzed 142,000 U.S. flu tests and found a similar pattern, with tests showing a decline in flu-like illness since...

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...saw signs of a slowdown. SOME DECLINES "We are beginning to see some declines in flu activity around the country but there is still a lot of influenza," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Dr. Anne Schuchat told a news...

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ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu. It's the first cluster of that many cases seen in the U.S. Health officials said Friday...

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Scientists in Norway announced Friday they had detected a mutated form of the swine flu virus in two patients who died of the flu and a third who was severely ill. In a statement, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said the mutation...

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...of Public Health said in a statement. There was no reason to believe the mutation had any implication for the effectiveness of flu vaccines or antiviral drugs made by groups such as Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and AstraZeneca,...

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...weeks or months more of disease can be expected. "We are beginning to see some declines in flu activity around the country but there is still a lot of influenza," the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat told a news conference. "It is still much...

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...of the deaths were confirmed to be caused by swine flu and the other six were confirmed to be caused by influenza A and are assumed to be swine flu. Overall, about two-thirds of the children who have died suffered from underlying...

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It seems to be following that pattern except it is coming very early this year." Flu transmission remains active in east Asia, the WHO said. "In Japan, influenza activity remains elevated but stable nationally and may be decreasing...

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...for mass vaccination. Poland did neither and has so far bought no vaccine, on the grounds that swine flu is actually more benign than ordinary flu and that the vaccine might therefore do more harm than good. Each of these countries...

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...stockpile 950,000 doses of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu, far more than it has had on hand in previous flu seasons. Meanwhile pharmacies have sold out of flu medicines and surgical masks across Ukraine. WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier, who is...

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