The H1N1 influenza virus has received publicity worldwide and has researchers, health care officials and health care providers all scrambling for vaccines, treatments and general information about the disease. More recently, it has become evident that this virus can also affect our pets, leaving many pet owners concerned about the health of their dogs, cats and other animals and asking questions about how to deal with the situation.What is the...more
Author: Health InsuranceHealth officials statewide soon will offer free H1N1 vaccine to all residents — possibly in the next two weeks — reversing a national trend of giving it only to those deemed at high risk of contracting the virus.“We really want to vaccinate as many people as possible,” Eden Wells, a medical epidemiologist with the Michigan Department of Community Health, said Monday. “We do know there are five more months of...more
Author: Health InsuranceWith the deaths of three adults reported to have underlying medical conditions the deaths of 50 New Mexicans have now been linked to the H1N1 flu by the state Department of Health.The DOH also has announced that it no longer will publish weekly updates on the H1N1 flu but will instead issues news releases as developments warrant. Summary of new developments: * Vaccine: 615,000 doses ordered; Vaccine is available to all New Mexicans. * Illness: 3.1 percent of people going to health-care providers are for influenza-like illness * Deaths: New: 3; Total: 50 * Hospitalizations: New: 7; Total: 964Influenza-Like IllnessVisits to health-care providers for influenza-like illness decreased from 3.3 percent last week to 3.1 percent this week. The Department tracks influenza-like illness, which is defined as fever and either cough and/or sore throat, at 26 clinics throughout the state. Influenza-like illness is the best indicator of flu activity in the state. H1N1 influenza is still the predominant strain of flu in New Mexico at this time.DeathsThe Department of Health is reporting three new deaths in the last week in New Mexico for a total of 50. All patients had...more
Author: Health InsuranceAnother surge in H1N1 influenza virus cases could be around the corner, and health officials are urging residents to get vaccinated and take precautions to avoid the illness.Officials with El Paso's Department of Public Health are expecting a wave of H1N1 flu in late January, but Deborah Busemeyer, spokeswoman for the New...more
Author: Adam ChurchFluoxetine is a drug suggested under brands like Prozac and Sarafem to treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia, anxiety, social phobia, and other mental health conditions. Fluoxetine comes under the classifications of drugs that go by the name Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). Serotonin influences...more
It was the Spanish who introduced the Americas and the American Indians to the pig. In return, the Indians instructed the Spanish on how to slowly cook the meat, and cure it with vinegar and spices, by smoking the meat over an open fire. So it was within this fateful gathering of these two cultures that barbecue began in America- dating all the way back to the early 1500's. One of the first colonies in the Americas, to begin with, was North Carolina. The first Spanish explorers that you read about in the history books in all actuality were Conquistadors who were into gold as a conquest, not colonization. The actual Spanish colonists arrived earlier in the beginning of the 1500's located themselves in South Carolina where they named it Santa Elena. They established in what is now called Port Royal within the county of Beaufort. Their colony lasted for close to twenty years with a fort that occupied several cannons, a church and bakery, a hardware store, and a pottery shop and over five hundred colonists with well over a hundred families. It became the first place that the white man first learned how to prepare and eat barbecue.Therefore, people were eating and preparing...more
Author: Debbie DavisIt's pretty hard to know who and what to believe about the Swine Flu Virus (H1N1) with so much conflicting information around. With so many emails circulating, it's hard to know whether gargling with salt water can really lessen...more
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Swine flu which is also known as H1N1 is a flu-like virus that can spread from person to person. It is different from the regular flu because it is affecting many young healthy adults and kids and the number of people getting hospitalized is larger....more
Author: Rick LewisNow, eight months later she has the answer. The 2009 flu pandemic was not the disaster public health authorities had planned for -- one that, like the 1918 Spanish flu, would kill tens of millions around the world.But it's been...more
Author: Muslim ShahidDuring normal immune response against infection the human body significantly increases the level of lymphocytes and cytokine cells used to eliminate microorganism and toxins. This release in lymphocytes and cytokines is regulated...more