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Mar 17, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – Severe obesity makes it almost five times more likely that adults infected with the H1N1 pandemic influenza virus will be ill enough to be hospitalized, and also more likely that they will die under certain conditions, according to new research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Severe obesity raises risk of poor H1N1 outcome (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy)

A new study from the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a study that finds the H1N1 virus spreads more slowly than the seasonal flu, and that this particular influenza strain disproportionately affects …

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H1N1 (Swine Flu) 2009 Update: Global's H1N1 Update – 03/16/10

It’s been several months since the uproar about the new H1N1 flu virus , and fortunately, it looks as if things have taken a turn for the better. The number of H1N1 cases nationwide has drastically reduced since H1N1 pandemic was declared on June 11, 2009. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Web site, there have been 40805 hospitalizations and 2009 deaths as a result of influenza -like illnesses (ILI) since Aug. 30, 2009

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No news is good news for the H1N1 flu virus – Food + Health – The …

The Influenza Division at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) countered that global H1N1 data do not show a clear association between the mutation and severe illness, and that the mutation proved fatal in three of …

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H1N1 in Transition: La persistance de dénouements – influenza monitor

The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates H1N1 has killed about 12,000 Americans, and possibly as many as 17,000. It put 250,000 into the hospital. …

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Biggest swine flu regret for US: vaccine chaos

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Abt Associates two new contracts to evaluate the effectiveness of the H1N1 vaccine among health care workers and children under the age of 18.

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Abt Associates receives two new contracts to evaluate effectiveness of H1N1 vaccine (News-Medical-Net)

When William Schaffner, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s chair of preventative medicine, attended a Center for Disease Control and Prevention meeting last week, he asked virologist and Advanced Hide Attached Image:  Show the attached image in the story Hide Sidebar Blocks:  Show standard sidebar blocks and ads. read more

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Schaffner says H1N1 virus prevalence decreasing (The Vanderbilt Hustler)

Robert Roos at CIDRAP has a very interesting article: H1N1 mutation’s proposed link to severe illness debated. Excerpt:Norwegian scientists today reported a pandemic H1N1 virus mutation that appears to be associated with severe disease, but a leading … However, Dr. Nancy Cox, director of the Influenza Division at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said global H1N1 data so far do not show a clear association between the mutation and severe illness.

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H5N1: H1N1 mutation's proposed link to severe illness debated

The flu bug has been laying low in Minnesota. Generally speaking, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Minnesota’s outbreaks of both seasonal and H1N1 flu are sporadic.

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Seasonal, H1N1 Flu Laying Low In Minn. (WCCO Minneapolis – St. Paul)

More than 57 million Americans have become ill from the H1N1 influenza virus and nearly 11,700 have died, according to estimates released Friday by the Centers f or Disease Control and Prevention….

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Swine flu still not an apocalypse