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Jane Parry on flu

TweetHong Kongers have lived through more than their fair share of bird flu scares across the border in China over the last few years, and, of course, Sars in 2003 when 299 people in the city died of...

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Adrian Gonzalez on swine flu in Mexico

Tweet In 2003 I was at the BMJ’s offices in Tavistock Square, London, when China’s SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic was at its peak. At that time the risk of infection seemed far away....

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B M Hegde on flu

TweetI was working in Ipswich in a cardiothoracic centre during the 1968-69 ‘Flu epidemic. During the Xmas week end of 1968 I had to be on call from Friday through Monday morning as most of my...

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Joe Collier on manoeuvres for avoiding Mexican flu

Tweet Mexican (swine) flu is clearly a threat. It is difficult to know exactly how best to avoid being infected, and although the risks for a Londoner are remote here are some changes I now make in my...

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Mairi Scott and Tom Love on pandemic flu training for retired health care...

Tweet Pressures on the workforce are going to be one of the big challenges for the NHS in a pandemic. One strategy which might help with this problem is to draw upon retired health professionals, who...

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Keith J Petrie and Kate Faasse: Monitoring public anxiety about flu

TweetGreater monitoring of the web could provide a guide to public anxiety about flu outbreaks and social media could be used more intensively to provide relevant public health information to younger...

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Ulrike Schmidt on swine flu fear and loathing in Mexico…and London

Tweet My flight to Cancun, Mexico, to attend the Conference of the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) was scheduled for Sunday, 26th of April. The day before there were several anxious emails about the...

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Tom Nolan’s flu blog

Tweet The media’s interest in H1N1 may have declined, but the number of cases appears to be on the increase, and not just in the southern hemisphere where we’re told to look to. The World Health...

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Choose your own swine flu adventure

Tweet The pandemic continues to spread throughout all corners of the world, with Serbia and Iraq getting their first cases yesterday. In the UK the West Midlands still lead the way in new cases with...

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The spread of swine flu

Tweet “We’re saying there have been at least a million cases of this new H1N1 virus in the United States so far this year. “ That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

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Swine flu: too early to say mild?

TweetThe number of laboratory confirmed cases of swine flu in England has shot up by nearly fifty percent since last Friday. 1604 new cases were confirmed between 27-29th June, bringing the total...

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Come swine with me

Tweet My plans for a H1N1 themed dinner party “come swine with me” are in tatters after Dr Jarvis, chairman of the British Medical Association’s public health committee, yesterday declared swine flu...

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Was H1N1 leaked from a laboratory?

Tweet391 cases of H1N1 were confirmed in the UK yesterday bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 6929. In Argentina, the state of Buenos Aires has declared a health emergency, with schools...

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Partners in swine

Tweet Yesterday I attended the Department of Health briefing on swine flu where the suave new secretary of state for health, Andy Burnham, and his partner in swine, Sir Liam Donaldson, gave an update....

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Flu vaccines and swine tig

TweetVaccination plans for the UK are slowly beginning to emerge. On Thursday Sir Liam Donaldson confirmed that 60 million vaccines are scheduled to be produced by the end of the year with the first...

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H1N1 – the science bit

TweetYesterday the number of deaths in the UK rose to seven. So far all of those who have died with H1N1 in the UK have had serious underlying health conditions and little information has been released...

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How do you monitor swine flu?

TweetYesterday, reporters descended on Whitehall to hear about the methods of influenza monitoring. Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer led the numbers feast alongside Justin McCracken, chief...

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Celebrity swine watch

Tweet The first UK swine flu death in a person without underlying health problems was reported on Friday. According to today’s Daily Mail, the man was “admitted to Basildon Hospital in Essex on July 1...

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Vaccines and virulence

TweetYesterday it was announced that Dr Michael Day, a GP from Bedfordshire, died from H1N1 influenza. A 6 year old girl has also died. Neither are believed to have had any serious underlying health...

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Mark Jadav: My experience of catching swine flu

TweetAfter reading my colleagues’ comments on the discussion fora of the harmfulness of playing our ace too soon, I bear the shame of being one of those low-risk (fairly) fit, (relatively) young people...

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Feeling the strain of swine

TweetNew cases of swine flu went up by 42% in England last week according to new figures from the Royal College of General Practitioners. Children are the most affected with  160 new cases of influenza...

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Tom Nolan: Confusion over flu advice in pregnancy

TweetGovernment deliver new advice for pregnant women A storm erupted over the weekend about the government’s advice to pregnant women on swine flu. It all started with the National Childbirth Trust...

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Tom Nolan: Prescribing antivirals – is beyond 48 hours too late?

TweetAfter Monday’s statement to the House of Commons from Andy Burnham (you can watch all ten hours of the commons session here), the RCGP emailed members to summarise this and other developments. One...

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Sneeze and Click service launched in England

TweetLast week 100,000 people are estimated to have had swine flu in the UK. 840 are in hospital and 63 are in intensive care according to Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson. The number of deaths...

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Tom Nolan: Critical care and the pandemic panic

TweetA pandemic of panic A “panic pandemic” is worsening the crisis in the UK said health ministers over the weekend. Andy Burnham, the health secretary, told The Observer of the need for people to...

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Annabel Bentley: Pregnancy and swine flu: facemasks and self imprisonment?

TweetIf you’re pregnant lock yourself in the house, shut the curtains and wear a facemask if you so much as put your nose outside the door… has advice to pregnant women finally gone too far? Or, given...

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Tom Nolan: Collection point nonsense

Tweet Talk of swine flu seems to have died down considerably since the launch of the national flu pandemic service in England last week. Despite the lack of news generally, it’s no longer on the front...

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Helen Macdonald on side effects, Tamiflu, and the swine flu hotline

Tweet A hundred and five thousand people with flu symptoms were prescribed Tamiflu via the new hotline last week. But there are some unintended consequences. Although consultation rates for flu like...

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Tom Nolan: How much flu is out there?

Tweet Measuring the tip of the iceberg The Health Protection Agency  estimates that there were 110,000 new cases of swine flu in England last week,10,000 more than the week before. But how did they...

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Helen Macdonald on the calm, waves of flu, vaccines, and other stories

Tweet Calm settled over swine flu coverage this week as the northern hemisphere headed into the summer holidays; but much remains uncertain. Stories tracking the Health Protection Agency’s weekly flu...

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Tom Nolan: Is Tamiflu useful in children or not?

Tweet Why did the operator at the National Pandemic Flu Service give the child Tamiflu? The cynics will say because the algorithm told him to, but the real answer, according to the UK government, is...

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Carl Heneghan and Matthew Thompson on Tamiflu in children: what’s all the fuss?

Tweet Carl Heneghan The last few days has been hectic since the publication of our systematic review in the BMJ on the use of  antivirals in children.  By now, you are probably aware of the findings...

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Helen Macdonald on figures, jabs, scaling back, and sewage

Tweet The number of swine flu cases fell across the UK again, according to the weekly figures from the Health Protection Agency, although they caution their interpretation. Sir Liam Donaldson,...

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Syed Shah on being the first case of influenza A/H1N1 in the United Arab...

TweetI had the honor of being the first case reported officially from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It was 3 am on Sunday, 17th May when I arrived at Dubai Airport, via Calgary and Heathrow, after...

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Tom Nolan on historic flu remedies

Tweet Last week we learnt who will be offered the vaccine against swine flu first. Priority groups include people in high risk groups age between 6 months and 65 years, pregnant women, household...

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Helen Macdonald on swabs, tips, and a flu game

Tweet Is there anything new about swine flu? The Department of Health update revealed an interesting finding this week. The Guardian reports; “One of the odder aspects of the latest data is that only...

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Tom Nolan: The flu will be back after the break

TweetTwo swine flu call centres in England will close on Sunday with the loss of 1200 jobs reports The Guardian. Demand for Tamiflu has plummeted: it peaked on 27 July with nearly 39,000 authorisations...

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Tom Nolan: Swine flu estimated to be 100 times more virulent than seasonal flu

Tweet PLOS Currents: Influenza is a journal with a difference. Mixing features of a journal with those of blogs and discussion forums it’s bound to ruffle some feathers. It describes itself as “a...

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Helen Macdonald on Panorama Special; swine flu

TweetThe BBC trailed it as everything you need to know about swine flu. The title probably raised my expectations too high. A street poll near the start of the programme showed that the public were a...

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Tom Nolan on flu: A lucky break

Tweet England’s chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson can sound gloomy and pessimistic but he sounded very upbeat in this week’s swine flu update, saying: “We may have got a lucky break in how the...

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Tom Nolan on the swine flu vaccine

TweetThe swine flu vaccine is officially here. The UK government announced on Friday that over 400,000 doses of the swine flu vaccine will be delivered to hospitals this week. The first to get the jab...

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Tom Nolan on what every doctor should know about the swine flu vaccine

TweetThe H1N1 vaccination programme is underway in the UK and many other countries across the globe. In Sweden a million people have already been vaccinated. One swine flu vaccine manufacturer,...

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Joe Collier on swine flu and ministries of fear

Tweet One thing about the current swine flu pandemic is that it has brought with it a universal sense of fear. As with all fears, individuals respond differently, but we know what they are feeling...

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Tom Nolan: New pandemic flu guidelines – don’t forget your oximeter

Tweet New guidelines on the management of pandemic H1N1 influenza were published recently by the Department of Health. They include guidelines on when to refer patients to hospital (see below) and an...

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Andrew Potter on not taking the swine flu vaccine

TweetIncreasing numbers of clinical staff at the hospital where I work declined invitations to be vaccinated against pandemic “swine” influenza. I think this is a worrying trend for both public health...

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Mary E Black on flu suits and holy water dispensers

TweetPlagues create business opportunities and the worried well in any era present a commercial opportunity. In the Middle Ages, the Black Death and the Great Plague saw brisk sales in fumigators,...

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Andrew Rouse and Tom Marshall: Informed consent, the doctor and H1N1...

TweetHow does a doctor obtain informed consent for H1N1 immunisation consistent with General Medical Council guidance? The Department of Health’s guidance does not provide sufficient information for...

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Tom Nolan on how to kiss during a flu pandemic

Tweet The first cases of H1N1 infection resistant to oseltamivir (Tamiflu) spreading from person-to-person were found in Wales last week. The spread of the resistant strain occurred at the University...

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Joe Collier: Price regulation offsets UK spend on anti-flu drugs

Tweet Everybody now knows that while the outbreak of swine flu reached pandemic proportions, the disease itself was less severe than first feared. Illness and death certainly occurred but the original...

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