“Directives issued Thursday by federal officials advise holiday travelers to have their papers in order, suggest what kind of shoes to wear and encourage those about to travel to get seasonal and H1N1 flu shots.
The federal agencies also guide travelers on how to cough and sneeze.
The U.S. Homeland Security Department, Transportation Security Administration, Centers for [...]

“Two people — one in New Hampshire and a second in New York — have died, 16 have been hospitalized and 28 have been sickened in an outbreak of E. coli that may be linked to ground beef distributed on the East Coast, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
As of October 28, there [...]

“Swine flu has killed 16 Michigan residents, hospitalized 396 and sickened scores of people as demand exceeds supply for the H1N1 vaccine, Michigan Department of Community Health officials said Monday.
‘We are at number you might see at the peak of a bad flu season,’ said Gregory S. Holzman, state Chief Medical Executive. ‘This is unprecedented.’
The [...]

“The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses’ offices suddenly look like big-city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day.
The federal government has urged schools to close because of the H1N1 swine flu only as a last resort. But schools are [...]

“President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.
The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s [...]

“The H1N1 virus is being blamed for two more deaths in Pima County. County health officials say two adults died at least a week ago. Both were women with underlying health concerns. Both died at home.
The deaths bring to five the number of people who have died from H1N1 in Pima County since April.
The two [...]

“Senators grilled the heads of three cabinet agencies about delays in the availability of H1N1 flu vaccine and whether states are ready to cope with the rising number of cases.”
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“The study conducted by Purdue University says the H1N1 vaccine won’t be as effective as the regular season vaccine because it was released late in the season. Scientists are predicting about 60 percent of the US population will get be infected by the end of this year, but only about one quarter of Americans [...]

“Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported on Wednesday.
A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent of them had so called bacterial co-infections, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
About half [...]

“There are two types of the vaccine available: the flu shot, an inactivated vaccine containing fragments of killed influenza virus, and a nasal-spray, which is made using a weakened live flu virus. The nasal spray will most likely be the first to be widely distributed, however certain groups, including pregnant women, young children and people [...]