Swine flu poses "serious health threat" to US, could kill 90k Americans: White House

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report on Monday, saying the H1N1 swine flu poses a serious health threat to the United States and could kill as many as 90,000 Americans.

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China quarantines Mexicans over swine flu fears; tensions arise May 03, 2009 11:41AM

Chinese authorities have quarantined more than 70 apparently healthy Mexicans who they believe may have swine flu, Mexico's ambassador to Beijing said Sunday. Read more

Hong Kong detects Asia's first swine-flu case May 01, 2009 12:09PM

Asia's first case of swine flu has been detected in Hong Kong, the territory's Chief Executive, Donald Tsang told reporters after visiting the Infectious Disease Centre of the Princess Margaret Hospital Thursday afternoon. Read more

Mexico encouraged by fall in new swine flu cases May 01, 2009 6:31AM

Mexico started a five-day shutdown of most offices and businesses on Friday to try to halt the spread of a deadly flu strain, and officials said they were encouraged by signs the number of new cases was dropping. Read more

Mexico's Pemex keeps operations active despite swine flu alarm Apr 30, 2009 9:36PM

Mexico's state owned oil and gas company Pemex maintains operations on its production, distribution, storage, offshore terminals and export facilities despite a federal government call to suspend all non essential economic activities to avoid the propagation of the swine flu virus. Read more

World Bank staff member diagnosed with Swine Flu Apr 30, 2009 4:44PM

The World Bank announced Thursday that a Bank staff member in Washington DC was preliminarily diagnosed with the Swine Flu on April 29. Read more

Google Flu Trends available for Mexico; Facebook tracking Swine Flu Apr 30, 2009 3:05PM

Facebook becomes the latest social-networking site to monitor the spread of swine flu, tracking the occurrence of flu-related words and phrases in the United States and in Europe. Read more

Markets shrug off Swine-Flu pandemic concerns to post gains – Chrysler’s bell has rung Apr 30, 2009 1:56PM

The WHO upped its Global alert from 4 to 5 – one short of a full blown pandemic yesterday, stating that this was a callout to all governments, pharmaceutical companies and families to take appropriate action to limit the extent of the pandemic. Read more

Biden swine flu comments prompt correction Apr 30, 2009 12:34PM

WASHINGTON - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday he would tell his family to stay off planes or subways to avoid swine flu, prompting his office to go into damage control and the travel industry to complain. Read more

Google puts flu tracker to work on swine flu Apr 29, 2009 6:40PM

Using a new tracking tool, search engine giant Google said on Wednesday it saw a spike in searches for information about flu among people in Mexico last week even before news of the outbreak became widely known. Read more