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191. Swine Flu Cases Rising in U.S., World
     

     April 27, 2009 -- Swine flu shows no signs of slowing down, with twice as many confirmed cases in the U.S. today as there were yesterday. And two more countries -- Canada and Spain -- have reported their first confirmed swine flu cases.  There are 40 lab-confirmed cases of swine flu in the U.S., up

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192. Swine Flu Pandemic Alert Level Raised
     

     April 27, 2009 -- Swine flu has prompted the World Health Organization to heighten its pandemic alert level from phase 3 to phase 4. That means that the swine flu outbreak has taken a "significant step" toward becoming a pandemic, but "we're not there yet," says Keiji Fukuda, MD, assistant director-

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193. Swine Flu: U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency
     

     April 26, 2009 -- The U.S. government today declared the swine flu outbreak a public health emergency. Swine flu has sickened at least 20 people in the U.S., by the CDC's latest count.  "We are declaring today a public health emergency," Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said today at

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194. CDC: Swine Flu Outbreak "Serious"
     

     April 25, 2009 -- Swine flu has killed at least 20 people in Mexico and sickened at least eight people in the U.S., and the CDC expects more U.S. cases as the hunt for swine flu intensifies. The eight confirmed U.S. cases are located in San Antonio, Texas, and California's San Diego County and Imper

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195. Mexico Swine Flu Epidemic Worries World
     

     April 24, 2009 -- Mexico's deadly swine flu outbreak is caused by the same virus identified in the U.S., says CDC Acting Director Richard Besser, MD. The CDC is analyzing 14 virus samples sent from Mexico. Seven of them, the CDC learned today, are very similar to the unusual swine flu strain isolate

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196. Swine Flu Case Count Rising
     

     April 21, 2009 - The CDC says seven people -- so far -- got sick from a new kind of swine flu virus. More cases are likely to be found, says CDC respiratory disease chief Anne Schuchat, MD, as the CDC's intensive investigation gets more data on suspected cases. "We believe that human-to-human spread

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197. Swine Flu Sickens 2 California Kids
     

     April 21, 2009 -- Two California children got sick with a mysterious new strain of swine flu -- and the CDC thinks they got the pig virus via person-to-person contact. Both kids, a 10-year-old boy from San Diego County and a 9-year-old girl from Imperial County, are now well. However, the girl had a

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198. Flu Shot Beats Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine?
     

     March 2, 2009 -- The traditional flu shot, given as an injection in the arm, performs better than the newer nasal spray flu vaccine, shows a new study that compared the two vaccines in military personnel. "We did find both vaccines effective," says study researcher Angelia Eick, PhD, a researcher at

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199. Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to Colds
     

     Feb. 23, 2009 -- A walk in the sun may be better than popping a vitamin C tablet for boosting your chances of preventing the common cold or flu. A new study adds to mounting evidence that vitamin C may have been stealing the spotlight all these years from the real cold fighter, vitamin D. The study,

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200. Universal Flu Drug Stops All Flu Types
     

     Feb. 23, 2009 -- A new kind of drug cocktail kills all types of flu bugs and could protect against pandemic or seasonal flu. "I certainly believe that a therapy for all kinds of influenza may be within our grasp," study researcher Robert Liddington, DPhil, director of infectious diseases at the Burn

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