Swine flu in Australia
The number of swine flu cases are increasingly rapidly in Australia, with a vaccine for the illness still a couple of months away.
Yahoo!7 will keep you up to date with all the latest swine flu news and information from Australia and around the globe.
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Global swine flu deaths slow as WHO toll passes 6,250
GENEVA (AFP) - More than 6,250 people have died in the swine flu pandemic, World Health Organisation data showed Friday, as the global death rate appeared to slow.
November 14, 2009, 8:13 am -
Flu shows signs of peaking in some areas - WHO
In an update on the H1N1 swine flu virus, the WHO said parts of the southern and southeastern United States, as well as Iceland and Ireland, seemed to have weakening levels of disease.
November 14, 2009, 4:06 am -
Qld hospital waiting times still too long: AMA
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says Queensland Health still has a long way to go to reduce emergency department waiting times to acceptable levels.
November 13, 2009, 10:50 am -
Aid freeze in post-coup Honduras hurting poor
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Poor Hondurans are going hungry and their sick children cannot obtain medicines as donors cut aid to the country following a June coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, doctors and aid workers say.
November 13, 2009, 2:43 am -
Qld public hospitals report improved performance
Queensland Health Minister Paul Lucas says 64 per cent of emergency department patients were given a hospital bed within eight hours, even during the peak of the swine flu outbreak.
November 12, 2009, 1:17 pm -
US swine flu deaths top 4,000: CDC
Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu - about four times the estimate they've been using.
November 12, 2009, 11:00 am -
The anti-swine flu holy water dispenser
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.
November 12, 2009, 5:34 am -
Google launches online flu shot finder
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google on Tuesday launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States.
November 11, 2009, 11:13 am -
GSK giving H1N1 jabs to developing world
British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline says it will donate 50 million doses of its swine flu vaccine to the WHO to distribute to developing countries.
November 11, 2009, 12:06 am
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