Tag Archives : Influenza A virus subtype H1N1

The H1N1 virus, cause of the swine flu, that caused about of 2.200 deaths in 177 countries, became the most dominant influenza in the world, overcoming the seasonal (common) influenza, announced WHO on this Friday. Up to now, the organization considered “probable” a domain of H1N1 starting from next winter in Northern Hemisphere. According [...]

Since last spring (Northern Hemisphere) at which the swine influenza sweeping Mexico and initiated the first pandemic of the world in 40 years, medical experts emphasized the unpredictability of influenza virus. The manifestos demanded of them have been: wait for the “unexpected”. So far, however, the new H1N1 virus has more or less followed [...]

The Argentine government declared this Friday a holiday for health national administration, which partly affects the private sector in an attempt to halt the advance of swine flu. According to the latest assessment of the WHO (World Health Organization), the disease affected 2,485 people in the country, and causing 60 deaths. The opponents of this [...]

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, said this Thursday, at the opening of an international forum on swine influenza in Mexico, that the spread of H1N1 virus around the world “can not be more contained. ” “From what we see today, with more than 100 countries recording cases of influenza, since [...]