New York Times
- Signs That Swine Flu Has Peaked The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu activity was declining in all regions of the country.
- Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu Cluster Reported in NC ATLANTA (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.
- Swine Flu May Have Hit One Peak; More to Come WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
- Moldova: Army Enlists Onions and Garlic to Ward Off Swine Flu The Moldovan Army is issuing garlic and onions to help its soldiers ward off a growing epidemic of swine flu in Eastern Europe.
- Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu Cluster Reported in NC ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu.
- Swine Flu May Be Peaking In U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the United States, health experts said on Friday.
- AP IMPACT: Gripes About Swine Flu Vaccine Abound ATLANTA (AP) -- When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be ''messy.'' They were right.
- WHO Investigating Norway Swine Flu Mutations GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear.
- Swine Flu May Have Hit One Peak; More to Come WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.
- New Cases of Flu Drop on College Campuses For the first time since fall began, new cases of flu among college students have started to drop, the American College Health Association reported.
- Officials Defend Handling of Flu Vaccine Federal officials said the root causes of a nationwide shortage of swine flu vaccine were beyond their control.
- Long Lines to Get Free Swine Flu Shot in New York City City officials reported that a higher volume of vaccinations were given than the weekend before at seven clinics throughout the five boroughs.
- Fragile Care Worsened Swine Flu In Ukraine When patients began arriving in Vyacheslav Bonder's intensive care unit two weeks ago, their lungs so saturated with blood that they could barely gasp, the only thing he could compare it to was a field hospital in wartime. As soon as he hooked one patient up to a ventilator, a second and third would appear in the doorway. By that time, hospitals were clearing wards to make room for a wave of pneumonia cases, and people were crowding into drugstores to buy whatever they could get their hands on....
- W.H.O. Rushes Drugs to Nations Hit by Swine Flu Emergency supplies of antiviral drugs are being sent to Ukraine, Afghanistan and other countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where hospitals report that they are being overwhelmed by patients with swine flu, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Ukraine in particular has ''a shortage of ventilators and they have counted more than 100 deaths by now,'' Dr. Nikki Shindo, a medical officer with the organization's global influenza program, said at a news briefing.
- Nations Hit by Swine Flu Getting Emergency Drugs Emergency supplies of antiviral drugs are being sent to Ukraine, Afghanistan and other countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where hospitals report that they are being overwhelmed by patients with swine flu, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Ukraine in particular has ''a shortage of ventilators and they have counted more than 100 deaths by now,'' Dr. Nikki Shindo, a medical officer with the organization's global influenza program, said at a news briefing.
