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As compared to seasonal flu, swine flu has been found to be a more likely cause of potentially life-threatening viral pneumonia. The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging doctors to immediately treat suspected swine flu cases, even the young and those who are otherwise healthy of the infected patients, with antiviral medicine. According to a WHO [...]

In a recent statement released by the White House, it has warned the citizens of the United States of a swine flu outbreak, bigger than the current one in the fall season. In the wake of this news, authorities and concerned agencies have announced to start a vaccination drive in the month of October this year and have also offered monetary assistance [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has already hiked up the H1N1 influenza, formerly known as swine flu, to a global pandemic level. So far, most infections are mild, but the agency believes the virus could mutate at any time to a more dangerous form. As of June 19, there are 44,287 laboratory-confirmed cases worldwide. In the U.S., the condition [...]

The surgical face mask has become the popular icon of the current Influenza A (H1N1) virus spread, formerly known as swine flu. The shortage of these masks elicits a pandemic fear even ahead of the H1N1 being pronounced a full-blown pandemic. In the US, health authorities admit that there are not enough face masks as there should be. The US Department [...]

US food safety ‘has not improved over the past three years.’ According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US food safety system needs a major overhaul. According to Dr. David Acheson, associate commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration, “The system needs to be modernized to address the [...]

Adrian Gibbs, an Australian scientist and one of the developers of the flu medication Tamiflu, recently said that the Influenza A (H1N1) virus was not a natural mutation but could have come out instead from a bio-experiment lab, and accidentally leaked in public. The statement led to some serious concern by the World Health Organization (WHO), but [...]

As is widely known, the peanut butter salmonella poisoning came not too long after another salmonella outbreak, that of the contaminated peppers produce. After a false alarm over suspected tomato salmonella poisoning, the FDA cleared tomatoes for consumption in early July of 2008 (PrietzkerLaw, 2008, July 17). Like the peanut butter case and the tomatoes [...]

Public health crisis communication largely originates from concerned government health agencies since they are the authorities on the matter. However, the wider and quicker dissemination of crisis communication can only be done with the help of media machinery. Media companies through their media facilities such as newspapers, radio, and television [...]

‘29 percent of those infected with HIV are over 50.’ The given medical explanation is that ‘the immune system deteriorates with age, the virus is all the more aggressive in older people.’ The report says that, ‘in 2005, 15 percent of new HIV and AIDS diagnoses were among people over the age of 50, according to the Centers for Disease Control [...]