Haiti and US health officials have confirmed: there is a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has already taken over a hundred lives. Hundreds of more people are infected and are in hospitals in the rural area of the island-state. Aid groups have started rushing help and medical supplies toward the region in an attempt to [...]
Both Live, Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) and Trivalent Inactivated Vaccine (TIV) provide Protection against novel A/H1N1, especially against severe disease Immunization with either live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV, also known as FluMist®), or trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV), appears to offer a protection (~ 45%) against the novel A/H1N1 virus, the cause of the present [...]
In response to confirmed cases of swine flu in Mexico, Canada, and the United States, European Union health officials are advising against travel to North America. At airports in Japan and several other Asian countries, thermal scanners are being used to identify fever among passengers from North America. But in the U.S. the disease is [...]