Where do we stand with swine flu, more properly known as the influenza type A H1N1 virus? One contact told me there have been 37,000 cases in Louisiana alone, others are reporting similarly scary-sounding numbers in other parts of the world. None of these figures is as high as incidence rates for the annual seasonal [...]

In 1997 Dr. Margaret Chan (Director-General of the WHO) and Professor Kennedy Shortridge stopped an avian pandemic happening. Shortridge’s solution was a practical hands-on solution and one not based upon a drug cure, for they knew that this would never happen in time. Due to his and Dr. Chan’s swift actions, millions if not hundreds [...]

In the week that one of our local schools was forced to close, we learned that no other schools in our district would be closed because of swine flu (H1N1) incidence. However, the number of confirmed swine flu cases in England has jumped by nearly 20% in a single day, latest figures show. The Health [...]

Swine flu continues to spread slowly across the globe. My friends in New Zealand tell me that as they move deeper into the southern winter, the H1N1 pandemic is having a greater and greater impact, with the government there telling people to prepare for H1N1 (aka swine flu) as if they are facing a civil [...]