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WHO calls for ‘close’ watch on flu in farmers, animals The World Health Organisation on Friday called for closer monitoring of farm workers and animals for influenza A viruses, following recent cases in a wider range of creatures than pigs Although the WHO stressed that the cases were isolated and...
Toronto doctor says he regrets urging flu shot for hospital board Board members at Mount Sinai Hospital were offered the vaccine last Monday, the first day it became available, despite public health officials advising only those who were most vulnerable to line up for the shots...
Panic in Ukraine over swine flu Officials in Ukraine have closed schools for three weeks, imposed travel restrictions and are limiting public events as the country battles to stop the spread of swine flu...
H1N1 Preparedness Guides are now available from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and print copies have begun to arrive in the mail at residences across Canada. PHAC is also making the guide available online here...
H1N1 outbreak at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto Public Health confirmed today an H1N1 flu outbreak at Mount Sinai hospital. While speaking to reporters in a conference room at Toronto Public Health’s downtown office, Dr. Ba...
Infonaut NEW! Infonaut's Fall 2009 Newsletter is now online.
N.B. health-care workers 1st to get flu shot New Brunswick health-care workers will be the first in Canada to roll up their sleeves and get the swine flu shot starting Thursday. The Health Department said it will begin by vaccinating those workers who will be giving the shots to everybody else...
Infection Watch Live is hard at work in southeastern Ontario, now that we’re in the third week of this second wave of Novel H1N1 Influenza A (human swine flu). ...
October 18-24 is 2009’s International Infection Prevention Week (US) and National Infection Control Week (Canada). ...
Medical official urges flu vaccine for athletes Bob McCormack, chief medical officer for Canada’s Olympic team, told reporters Tuesday that athletes should be among the first vaccinated against the H1N1 flu strain because of the communal conditions of the international games. ...
Google Flu Trends tool comes to Canada Google Flu Trends, an internet search tool that tracks the spread of influenza as an early warning of outbreaks, expanded to Canada and 15 other countries on Thursday. The company said it launched the tool in the U.S...
Scotland funds nurses returning in swine flu pandemic Nurses and midwives returning to work in Scotland to help in any worsening of the H1N1 outbreak will have their re-registration costs paid for by the Scottish government...
MDs, nurses pressing for more specific pandemic plan Canada’s doctors and nurses pressed MPs to help fill the gaps in the national pandemic plan Monday, urging them to ask the government for more consistent communication. ...
Singapore launches program to ensure business continuity during flu pandemic Singapore launched on Tuesday a program to help businesses remain undisrupted in times of a possible flu pandemic...
Nasal spray flu vaccine becoming available The long-awaited first vaccinations against swine flu — the squirt-in-the-nose kind — begin early next week in parts of the country, and states are urging people to be patient until more arrives. … ...
