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Six more people have died from H1N1 since last week, state health officials said on Monday as they singled out people with asthma as those who should get the swine flu vaccine. Full Article at Detroit News Online
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The Detroit News' Oct. 29 editorial about the Michigan Department of Community Health ("Information gap: Michigan should make instructions on obtaining swine flu shots more easily available") misrepresented the state's actions to address the H1N1... Full Article at Detroit News Online
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Supporters wear protection masks against swine flu, A(H1N1) virus attend a football match in Bucharest November 9, 2009. Romanian authorities declared on Monday a number of 907 people infected with AH1N1 virus. View Photo »
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Information gap: Michigan should make instructions on obtaining swine flu shots more easily available
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If you are an uninsured or underinsured Mississippian, you may be able to get antiviral medications that combat swine flu for free, the Mississippi Department of Health announced Monday. Full Article at The Meridian Star
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Americans who are frustrated with shortages of swine flu vaccine place slightly more blame on drug companies than the federal government, a USA Today/Gallup Poll showed Monday. Full Article at Pittsburgh Entertainment
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10 November 2009 RIYADH - In its ongoing fight to contain the deadly swine flu virus, the Ministry of Health announced Monday the names of 11 primary health care centers (PHC) here where people can get the vaccination. Full Article at Zawya.com
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Supporters wear protection masks against swine flu, A(H1N1) virus attend a football match in Bucharest November 9, 2009. Romanian authorities declared on Monday a number of 907 people infected with AH1N1 virus. View Photo »
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Sponsors can benefit from the worries of Swine Flu (H1N1)
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New Delhi, Nov 10: India's Swine Flu death toll has now surpassed the 500 mark with 17 new fatalities reported on Monday, Nov 9. With these new deaths, the total H1N1 toll in Rajashtan mounts to 17. Full Article at OneIndia
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GENEVA -- In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44. Full Article at Myrtle Beach Sun News
About Swine Flu
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Swine influenza (also called swine flu, hog flu, and pig flu) is an infection of a host animal by any one of several specific types of microscopic organisms called "swine influenza virus". A swine influenza virus (SIV) is any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is usually hosted by (is endemic in) pigs. Full Article
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Andrea Wagner, left, receives the H1N1 swine flu vaccine from pharmacist Khoi Nguyen, right, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, at a pharmacy in Seattle. King County (Wash.
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Anthony Gogna, center, receives the H1N1 swine flu vaccine from pharmacist Derek Lee, right, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, as Gogna's daughter Gillian, 1 1/2, looks on at a pharmacy in Seattle. King County (Wash.
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A man receives an injection against the H1N1 influenza, Swine Flu (Schweinegrippe) in a municipal health centre in Vienna November 9, 2009.
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A person passes by a green board pointing the direction of a vaccination centre against swine flu on November 8, 2009 in Lyon, eastern France.
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An Afghan boy tries to sell protective masks on a market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Swine flu has left 11 people dead in Afghanistan, where hundreds of Afghan and international troops are battling the disease and facing a rising militant insurgency.
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Afghan men wear protective masks as their work in their shop at the market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Swine flu has left 11 people dead in Afghanistan, where hundreds of Afghan and international troops are battling the disease and facing a rising militant insurgency.
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A Palestinian woman, who has registered to perform the annual pilgrimage to the Muslim holy places in Saudi Arabia, is vaccinated against swine flu or influenza A(H1N1) at a clinic in Hebron on November 7, 2009.
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Saudi Arabian nurses attend the launch of a swine flu vaccine campaign in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Saudi Arabia's health minister said Saturday the kingdom will not ban anyone considered high risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year.
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An employee of the Saudi Arabian Health Ministry, right, is administered a swine flu vaccine during the launch of a swine flu vaccine campaign in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
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Sponsors can benefit from the worries of Swine Flu (H1N1)
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Assuming the swine flu virus doesn't begin to look more virulent, we hope we can look back at H1N1 in 2009 as an important planning exercise for the future to see where our vulnerabilities lie
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It is official: Goldman Sachs is more important than you are…At least that is the way that the public may perceive a WSJ story today that Goldman was one of several Wall Street firms that received large dosages of swine flu vaccines, while some New York City hospitals and clinics are running out of the ...
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This swine flu that’s now an epidemic ... they’ve been able to trace it back to a farm in North Carolina. A hog farm. Nobody knows this. Nobody talks about it. We’ve been told this lie that it came from Mexico.
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Rising unemployment, swine flu and the threat of health care reform all ganged up on managed care companies in the third quarter and could hurt their performance heading into 2010
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How worried are you about swine flu in Oregon?
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There is good and increasing evidence that pregnant women are at higher risk of the serious consequences of swine flu. This evidence suggests that pregnant women are more likely to develop serious complications from swine flu, and the World Health Organization has stated that 7-10% of all hospitalised p...
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In all of the Middle East, we have registered 26,400 cases of swine flu over the past seven months. Of those, we have had 150 deaths in total from swine flu in the Middle East, and 50 to 80 per cent of those who died have had other underlying health problems, like chronic diseases or compromised immune ...
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Swine flu is a worldwide problem; it does not stop at borders. An outbreak of swine flu will endanger the Palestinian population and also endanger the State of Israel.
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New York City health officials have distributed small amounts of the swine flu vaccine to some major New York companies, including Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, even as shortages continue. Citigroup has received 1,200 doses, more than half of what it requested, health officials sai...
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Swine flu hasn't gone away... It was detected in an indigenous community ... It's under control now.
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H1N1 or swine flu season going on I just want them to be protected
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I love Jefferson County, but why should they get swine flu vaccine well before St. Louis County? ... If things turn out to be an epidemic that kills thousands of people, I hate to point the finger at anybody, but it seems like the planning could have been a little more coordinated.
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The problem is much worse in the United States, of course, but we have to be careful because, after all, we do not know if any children have died of swine flu here in Egypt
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In Shanghai, there have been about 1,300 cases of swine flu since the first was detected in May
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HSBC and Novartis bought a lot of Tamiflu to give to their employees in case of emergency because it would be difficult to secure the medicine if swine flu starts to spread rapidly
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There is nothing privileged about the H1N1 Swine Flu; there should be nothing privileged about getting vaccinated ... The flu infects everyone the same way and causes the same illness; the only thing selective about the vaccines should be high-risk populations get them first.
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Swine Flu Vaccine: Banks Getting H1N1 doses Before Many High-Risk Groups
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With H1N1 Swine Flu virus, there are a few hundred deaths. I would like to know where the emergency is?
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Slovakia, which lies on Ukraine's western border, closed two of its five border crossings with Ukraine to keep the infection from spreading. In Russia, where there have been 14 confirmed swine flu deaths, the Health Ministry said it would examine anyone crossing the border from Ukraine and quarantine pe...
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A 13-year okd Iowa cat has been infected with swine flu, veterinary and federal officials said Wednesday in what is believed to be the first case of the H1N1 virus in a feline in the United States
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Official: Swine flu confirmed in Iowa Cat
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I and some of my relatives made it a point to reach the Haj House in time so that we receive the immunizations and are screened for swine flu on Wednesday itself. However, the doctor had left much before we arrived, and did not return.
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