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Dec 31, 2009

Dec 31, 2009

Pneumococcus infection boosts risk of severe illness in H1N1 patients

Maryn McKenna
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Dec 31, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – H1N1 flu patients who were also infected with a common cause of pneumonia were 125 times more likely to develop life-threatening disease, a team of American and Argentinean researchers reported Thursday.

Dec 30, 2009

Dec 30, 2009

Study: H1N1 not highly contagious in households

Maryn McKenna
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Dec 30, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – People living in the same household were less likely to catch H1N1 influenza from a sick family member than they would have been in past pandemics or during a normal flu season, a team from University College London and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dec 29, 2009

Dec 29, 2009

Chan calls for continued vigilance against H1N1

Robert Roos
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Dec 29, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said today that the H1N1 influenza pandemic isn't over and requires careful monitoring for up to another year.

Dec 28, 2009

Dec 23, 2009

Dec 23, 2009

H1N1 poses grave risk to pregnant women, new moms

Maryn McKenna
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Dec 23, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Infection with H1N1 influenza poses a grave danger to pregnant women and those who have just delivered, and the risk increases when they do not receive antiviral treatment very rapidly, California and Atlanta researchers report today online ahead of print in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"This pandemic has the potential to notably increase overall maternal mortality in the United States in 2009," they write.

Dec 22, 2009

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