flu pandemic

Governments should launch a vaccination programme now to guard against a possible H2N2 flu pandemic, according to an article in the journal Nature.

Accompanying the H1N1 flu pandemic was an increased interest in vaccination against seasonal influenza, researchers found.

After governments spent billions of dollars on H1N1 vaccines that are going unused, some politicians and health professionals are asking whether the threat of flu was overblown

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Closing schools for less than two weeks during a flu pandemic may increase infection rates and prolong an epidemic, say University of Pittsburgh researchers in a study published online in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

The findings, developed from a series of computer simulations based on U.S. census data, indicate that schools may need to be closed for at least eight weeks in order to significantly decrease the spread of infection.

After seven months of the H1N1 flu pandemic, about 50 million people have been infected, or one in six U.S. residents, the CDC said today.

In the first six months of the H1N1 flu pandemic, 22 million Americans fell ill from the virus, the CDC now estimates.

PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- In this InFocus™ discussion, infectious disease experts Richard Whitley, MD, and Arnold Monto, MD, look at why healthcare workers on the front lines of the H1N1 flu pandemic may not be getting clear messages about how to treat and prevent the virus.

Men who were in utero during the peak of the 1918-1919 flu pandemic were at increased risk of heart disease when they reached their 60s, 70s, and 80s, researchers said.

Many state and local governments are not adequately prepared to deal with a surge of patients in a flu pandemic or quickly distribute vaccine and antiviral drugs, according to two reports by federal investigators being released on Monday.

Seattle's public schools are stocking up on surgical masks, revamping their health curriculum and preparing for a flu pandemic.