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Swine flu: Nature Newsa new strain of swine flu-influenza A (H1n1)- is spreading around the globe.
This timeline will be updated continually with key dates, drawing on authoritative information from the World health organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources.
For more on the situation see the Nature News swine flu special, and read updates on The Great Beyond blog.
Australia begins mass swine flu vaccinations. 25 september 2009: European Medicines Agency recommends approval of two H1n1 vaccines, from Novartis and Glaxosmithkline.
Healthy victims of swine flu should not routinely be given antiviral drugs, the World health organization useantivirals 20090820/en/index. html>warns.
Two Australian companies say they have started human trials of their swine flu vaccines. 16 july 2009: WHO changes reporting requirements for H1n1
The UK moves its swine flu response from'containment'to'treatment'.'Our national focus should be on treating the increasing numbers affected by swine flu,
says health minister Andy Burnham. 29 june 2009: The first case of Tamiflu resistant swine flu has been reported in Denmark 24 june 2009:
Argentinian authorities report that a pig at a pig farm in Buenos aires province has tested positive for the novel H1n1 strain,
South africa confirms its first case of swine flu-offically marking the disease's spread into Sub-saharan africa.
The first swine flu death in Europe has been reported. A woman in Scotland who died with H1n1 had underlying health conditions, according to the Scottish government.
THE WHO has 0511/en/index. html>confirmed swine flu deaths in Canada and Costa rica, bringing the total number of countries where fatalities have occurred to four.
WHO 0506d/en/index. html>confirms swine flu cases in Sweden and Guatemala. 5 may 2009: Mexico's H1n1 shutdown should begin to ease tomorrow,
The agency also announces it will refer to the virus not as swine flu but as influenza A (H1n1.
and confirms three swine flu cases. THE WHO confirms 7 more cases in Canada, bringing the total number there to 13.28 April 2009:
Seven countries are now reporting 0428/en/index. html>confirmed cases of H1n1 swine flu: the United states, Mexico, Canada, New zealand, the United kingdom, Israel and Spain.
Canada reports six cases of swine flu and Spain reports one. In the United states 40 people have confirmed flu.
Earliest onset date of swine flu reaching the United states, according to the CDC. 18 march 2009: Federal district of Mexico 0424/en/index. html>begins to pick up cases of swine flu.
California in clean-fuel drive: Nature Newsthe state of California has adopted regulations to curb greenhouse-gas emissions from transportation fuels,
Within minutes of the World health organization (WHO) announcement on 11 june that swine flu had become a pandemic, Bernard Vallat, director-general of an intergovernmental trade body,
The virus originated from a mixture of swine flu strains, and pigs are an obvious part of the epidemiology of the new virus,
so there is no obligation to report cases of swine flu, much less take samples for genetic and antigenic analysis. The OIE has asked,
Surveillance for swine flu is not something that has been high on the agenda of government services,
OFFLU has called on labs worldwide to share what information they have on swine flu, and to sequence any samples they have obtained recently.
would have been present in human and swine flu viruses at least 6 years earlier. During the intervening years
These analyses were completed before the current pandemic swine flu strain made its mark, but the researchers argue that their results have implications for future pandemics.
Swine flu shares some features with 1918 pandemic: Nature Newsas far as your immune system is concerned, the pandemic H1n1 (swine flu virus currently circling the globe bears an uncanny resemblance to an influenza virus that wreaked havoc nearly a century ago,
researchers have found. For months, it has been apparent that swine flu strikes the young more often than the old an unusual pattern that suggests older patients could have been exposed to similar viruses in the past.
A new study released today By nature suggests that people alive during the infamous 1918 influenza outbreak have the greatest protection against the current swine flu1.
which reported that swine flu reproduces more aggressively and produces more severe disease in ferrets than seasonal flu (see Swine flu reaches into the lungs and gut).
Kawaoka's team observed this virulence in mice and macaques as well, but pigs showed no outward signs of disease
and found that those born before 1918 were more likely to produce antibodies capable of neutralizing the swine flu virus. That protection is somewhat counterintuitive:
But it is still possible that the immune response elicited by one virus can offer protection against the other (see Old seasonal flu antibodies target swine flu virus). Oddly,
At present, most swine flu infections are mild, and the severity of the present pandemic does not come close to the 1918 flu,
People infected with the H1n1 swine flu virus who are otherwise healthy should not routinely be given antiviral drugs,
000 swine flu sequences each, and around 200 countries collected none at all. Five of those countries-Russia
Moreover, the pork industry often doesn t want the negative image of having swine flu detected in its farms.
globally changing the swine influenza virus landscape, says Peiris.""This certainly is a source of concern for public health.
Swine-flu alert The number of reported cases in an outbreak of H3n2v virus a variant strain of swine flu that can pass from pigs to humans took a sudden spike last week.
The animals responded by making antibodies that blocked that virus but aided infection with the swine flu H1n1,
a real one not the BS swine flu) Engineers are scientists too btw. Think applied physics.
The issue is as serious as swine flu says Modern Farmer. Some key quotes: So they're bad.
#The Swine flu You Can Get From American County Fairsbefore 2012 outbreaks of so-called influenza A variant infections in the U s. only popped up once in a while in the medical literature.
and swine flus and these virus can circulate inside pigs for varying lengths of time with no signs of illness.
which could help halt infectious diseases such as bird flu swine flu and SARS before they take hold. Focusing on the avian flu virus strain H5n1 research published today in the journal PLOS ONE identifies key stages in the poultry trade chain which lead to its transmission to other birds animals and humans.
The possibility that H7n9 might infect pigs is particularly troubling as swine are considered a mixing vessel for viruses--a breeding ground for novel viral reassortants like the 2009 H1n1 pandemic influenza strain commonly known as swine flu.
or the 2009 H1n1 swine flu outbreak that killed 280000 worldwide developed when viruses from humans and animals exchanged genes to create a new virus in a process called reassortment.
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