One of the good things about the pandemic flu threat (if you'll let me put it that way) is the stimulus it has provided for vaccine technology. While ...
Via CIDRAP, an article in the journal Asia Pacific Family Medicine: Avian Influenza: A Global Threat Needing a Global Solution. The abstract, re-parag...
By Miriam FalcoCNN Medical Managing EditorA German hospital announced this week that a 42-year old American living in Berlin who did not want to be id...
I gather that in the 1970s, a British TV series called Survivors was a three-season hit in portraying the problems of those who live through a mysteri...
Via the Blackburn Citizen: GP s dire warning over East Lancashire hospital 'chaos.' Excerpt:A family doctor has launched a stinging attack on East L...
If there's an influenza pandemic in the near future all bets are off when it comes to unplanned for consequences. Well, maybe not all bets. Right now ...
Thanks to Mike Coston at Avian Flu Diary for the link to Pandemic Information News, a new blog that seems to specialize in computer translations from ...
Via Swisster.ch: Flu pandemic still a risk, say Swiss health authorities. Excerpt:The threat of a deadly pandemic caused by bird flu is still a realit...
The virulent influenza A subtype H5N1, known colloquially as bird flu, has caused sporadic cases of human disease but has not yet become a pandemic st...