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- Jeremy Laurance: Deaths are down, flu is in retreat. Hurrah for the pandemic! (Independent)
Feb 15, 2010 - Could pandemic flu end up saving lives this winter? An odd idea, I know, but consider this. When swine flu arrived last summer it spread very rapidly, peaking at the end of July. There was a smaller peak in the autumn and now levels are so low that the Government last week closed the National Flu Pandemic Service. From the start we knew it was nastier in young children under five than in adults ... - Swine flu cost NHS more than £275,000 (This is Oxfordshire)
Feb 15, 2010 - SWINE flu has cost the NHS in Oxfordshire more than £275,000 since the pandemic began in May, with almost 24,000 doses of Tamiflu issued and 45,000 people immunised. - Another flu wave expected (Courier-Post)
Feb 15, 2010 - New Jersey health officials say the country is due for a third wave of the pandemic flu and are reiterating their advice that immunization shots against regular influenza and H1N1 are the best protection against infection. - Fighting pandemics like swine flu in digital age (San Francisco Chronicle)
Feb 15, 2010 - A tap on the HealthMap iPhone application brings up a cluster of red pins on a map, representing nearby cases of swine flu. Another tap brings up a form for ordinary Americans to add to the collection by reporting bouts they have or know about. HealthMap... IPhone - HealthMap - 2009 flu pandemic - United States - Pandemic - Pandemic Flu Service stands down (Eastbourne Today)
Feb 15, 2010 - THE NATIONAL Pandemic Flu Service is to stand down. (12/02/2010 10:05:05) - Fighting a pandemic digitally: News about threats like swine flu move faster than virus (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Feb 15, 2010 - PHILADELPHIA - A tap on the HealthMap iPhone application brings up a cluster of red pins on a map, representing nearby cases of swine flu. Another tap brings up a form for ordinary Americans to add to the collection by reporting bouts they have or know about. - Swine flu science update: 10 February 2010 (AlertNet)
Feb 15, 2010 - Source: SciDev.Net The WHO has defended its handling of swine flu influenza A(H1N1) after being accused of declaring a pandemic without adequate scientific evidence. Wolfgang Wodarg, an epidemiologist and chair ... - H1N1 sent higher proportion of patients to ICU than regular flu: report (C-Health)
Feb 12, 2010 - TORONTO - H1N1 influenza landed a higher proportion of Canadians in ICUs and on ventilators, and at a much younger age on average, than seasonal flu does in a typical year, says a report assessing the comparative impact of the pandemic virus. - WHO experts to meet this month, examine whether peak of swine flu pandemic is over (Baltimore Sun)
Feb 12, 2010 - GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization will hold an expert meeting later this month to consider whether the swine flu pandemic's peak has passed, a senior official said Thursday. - East Sussex pandemic service shut (Sussex Express)
Feb 12, 2010 - THE NATIONAL Pandemic Flu Service (NPFS) has been closed down as cases of swine flu drop in East Sussex and Nationally.