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...over the past two weeks, fears over H1N1 have cooled considerably, as the virus has failed to spread easily outside North America and the number of deaths from the disease has remained low, leaving the WHO fending off critics who questioned whether the international agency overreacted. "We know that we are seeing things change on an almost daily basis," said Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim director for health, safety and the environment. "It is still a confusing situation." (See pictures as the swine flu hit Mexico...
...Science study also indicates that young people - those who are generally the most resistant to the seasonal flu - are especially vulnerable to H1N1. It's still not clear why that is. It could be that older people are more likely to have contracted a virus similar to H1N1 in the past, which might give them some immunity. Or it may be that young people simply encountered H1N1 more often in the early days of the outbreak. The only thing that's clear is that young people are contracting it and they are getting sick. In the small Mexican town...
...epidemiologists begin to crunch the data on H1N1, we should have a better idea of how it spreads - and how dangerous it might be. New studies published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine indicate that older people in the U.S. also appear to have escaped the virus - just 5% of U.S. patients with confirmed cases of H1N1 are 51 or older. Still, since health officials have so far focused mostly on outbreaks in schools, it's possible they are simply missing older cases. "This is an evolving outbreak and we're still learning how this virus works," said...
...H1N1 flu, it also revealed several areas in which Americans still lacked knowledge. For example, many people were not aware of the CDC’s recent decision to change the name of the disease from “swine flu” to “H1N1 virus,” a third of Americans erroneously believed a vaccine against the virus is available, and a third were unaware that there are anti-viral drugs to treat the flu. The survey also found that more than half of Americans are taking action to lessen their chances of coming...
...Other areas of government have had success on a far greater scale. The CDC, which began experimenting with social media three years ago, has created a raft of YouTube videos, podcasts, webpage widgets and Twitter-size feeds to inform the public about the latest news on the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu. Between April 22 and May 4, the CDC received 1.2 million views of flu-related material on YouTube and 46.6 million Web-page views, and attracted 99,000 followers on its Twitter feed "CDCemergency," which provides breaking updates on health issues. Janice Nall...