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Cynics have said that the news coverage of the developing Swine Flu outbreak / pandemic is a conspiracy plot to divert attention from the global “credit crunch” and recession.
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This is the Department of Health’s TV advert to raise awareness of how to prevent spreading and catching Swine Flu.
This is the Department of Health’s Swine Flu information leaflet that will be delivered to every household in the UK, starting from Tuesday 5 May 2009.
This leaflet includes information [...] Continue Reading…
This is the Health Protection Agency’s “Algorithm for the management of suspected cases (returning travellers and visitors from countries affected by swine influenza A/H1N1 or contacts)”, updated 1 May [...] Continue Reading…
Cynics have said that the news coverage of the developing Swine Flu outbreak / pandemic is a conspiracy plot to divert attention from the global “credit crunch” and recession.
An [...] Continue Reading…
It has been 5 days since the first cases of Swine Flu (now more often called H1N1 influenza-A) have appeared outside Mexico. There has not been a death from [...] Continue Reading…
The Health Protection Agency this afternoon confirmed that 230 suspected cases of aH1N1 Swine Flu in the UK are currently waiting for laboratory confirmation or exclusion. This is an [...] Continue Reading…
The Department of Health has today launched a freephone public helpline for information and advice about aH1N1 Swine Flu.
The number is:
0800 1 513 513
As predicted on this site, the World Health Organisation has been forced to raise its influenza pandemic alert level to Phase 5.
Phase 5 is characterized by human-to-human spread of [...] Continue Reading…
On 27 April 2009, the World Health Organisation raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from the phase 3 to phase 4.
There are 6 phases in the alert system. [...] Continue Reading…
This is the Health Protection Agency’s “Algorithm for the management of returning travellers and visitors from countries affected by swine influenza A/H1N1 presenting with febrile respiratory illness: recognition, investigation [...] Continue Reading…
The first fatality from Swine Flu outside Mexico has been reported. It is a 23-month-old child in Houston, Texas, USA.
Very little information about the case is available at present. [...] Continue Reading…
Welcome to Pandemic2009.org, a website dedicated to the evolving Swine Flu outbreak of April 2009.
My name is Dr Mandar Marathe. I am an Emergency Physician in England.
Until the morning of Saturday 25 April 2005 I had never heard of Swine…
