Medical Health

The 73-year-old man died in hospital in Paisley, central Scotland, late Saturday and had “serious underlying health problems”, having been in intensive care for two weeks.
Scotland’s Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said: “Although it is concerning that the patient had swine flu, we are aware that the patient had very serious underlying health [...]

There have been an extra 7,873 cases and 51 more deaths since the last toll released by the UN health agency on Friday.
The United States led a group of countries that have seen dramatic increases in cases of the A(H1N1) virus.
There were an extra 3,594 cases to a total of [...]

“The U.S. will likely see [swine] flu activity continue throughout the summer,” Dr. Daniel Jernigan, a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Influenza Division, said during a press conference.
The virus’ spread has slowed in most parts of the country, Jernigan said, but new cases [...]

The Dutch territory’s Health Ministry said it was examining passengers and crew as a precaution. Three crew members have tested positive for the H1N1 influenza and 11 others showed symptoms, prompting the Ocean Dream to cut short its Caribbean cruise.
Helicopters buzzed overhead and Coast Guard boats flanked the ship as passengers waited to disembark [...]

The nine year old boy was found with his family in a hotel near Mecca’s Grand Mosque and referred to a local hospital after tests showed he was infected with the A(H1N1) flu virus, the health ministry said.
His was one of five new cases announced on Wednesday, taking the total to 22 [...]

Three people arriving in Doha on international flights were diagnosed with A(H1N1) influenza, and Kuwait also reported that one of its citizens had the virus — the first among the emirate’s resident population.
Qatar’s Health Minister Abdullah al-Qahtani said a two-year-old New Zealand boy tested positive for the flu on arrival in Doha [...]

The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fear-mongering hype. But that’s not how public health officials see it, calling complacency the thing that keeps them up at night.
The World Health Organization added a scary-sounding warning Thursday, predicting up to 2 billion [...]

“Only about 10 percent of confirmed cases have a travel history for Mexico,” which is believed to be the source of the outbreak, Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during an afternoon teleconference. “This indicates ongoing transmission in communities. We would expect that [...]

The median age of hospitalized individuals with swine flu is 15, which is younger than occurs with regular seasonal flu, Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during an afternoon news conference.
“We are seeing the same distribution in hospitalized patients as we [...]

U.S. health officials said the median age for confirmed hospital cases in the United States is 15. And in Mexico, new figures showed that almost half of the 42 confirmed swine flu deaths were of people 29 and younger.
Some experts have speculated that older people exposed to more flu strains in the past have [...]