Swine Flu Epidemic

Bulgaria's Chief Epidemiologist, Dr. Angel Kunchev, has stated that the Health Ministry will call off the national swine flu epidemic at the end of this week due to a fall in cases of infection. Kunchev stated that there has been a significant drop in cases of people infected with the A(H1N1)…

Bulgaria's Chief Epidemiologist Angel Kunchev has said that the Health Ministry will call off the country-wide swine flu epidemic at the end of this week due to a fall in cases of infection.

Acting on Ukraine's call for international aid in fighting the swine flu epidemic, the Bulgarian government has allocated aid worth BGN 250 000. The aid to Ukraine consists of medications and medical equipment. It will be provided from the reserves of the Military Medical Academy in Sofia, and…

The Sofia Health Inspectorate announced Friday afternoon that the Bulgarian capital will be declaring a swine flu epidemic starting Monday, November 9, 2009. The number of A(H1N1) cases in Sofia have reached the epidemic levels of 180 per 10 000 people. The most affected group is the…

Bulgaria's Health Ministry announced Friday afternoon the declaration of a state of national swine flu epidemic over the rising number of patients with A(H1N1). The Health Ministry made the decision based on the grounds that the number of people with swine flu has reached 210 per 10 000. Thus,…

Bulgaria's region of Targovishte officially declared Friday a swine flu epidemic with 232 people from every 10 000 suffering respiratory problems. All schools in the region will be closed until November 6, prophylactic doctors exams, exams of pregnant women and children are banned as well as…

Half of Bulgaria is close to a swine flue epidemic, but the 200 infected per 10 000 of the population have not yet been reached in order to officially announce it. The information was reported by Dr. Angel Kunchev, Head of the “Monitoring of Infectious Diseases” Department at the Bulgarian…

The District of Burgas in Southeast Bulgaria declared Monday a swine flu epidemic over the rising number of people infected with the A(H1N1) virus. The medical alert will be in force until November 6 but may be extended. All schools will be closed until that date, and all public events have been…

Obama declares the swine flu epidemic a major federal priority but that's only to get more resources to it. The situation, while imperfect, seems manageable, so far.

The Health Ministry and the Majlis Health Committee are seriously opposed to allowing Iranians to go on hajj this year due to the swine flu epidemic, MP Mohammad-Reza Rezaii-Kouchi said on Saturday.

Some 271 schools in cities across Tehran Province have been temporarily closed due to the swine flu epidemic, the Tehran Education Department’s public relations officer for provincial cities said on Saturday. The Health Ministry has said 23 citizens have died of the H1N1 virus so far.

Bulgaria is in the middle of a flu epidemic, and this is caused by the A (H1N1) virus, Dr. Angel Kunchev, head of the Department of Control of Communicable Diseases in the Ministry of Health confirmed. Dr....

Many people continue to come into work when they're sick because they don't get paid sick leave. A bill that would require employers to offer sick leave has been on hold, stalled by the health overhaul legislation. But the swine flu epidemic has made the issue more pressing.» E-Mail…

The US Government is scared that a swine flu epidemic could crash the countries broadband infrastructure. A report released by the US Accountability Office said that if 40% of employees and students were at home sick, there is a high likely hood they will be on the Internet, hence causing…

Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan……of new bacterial strains due to overuse of antibiotics on farmed animals, and the origins of the swine flu epidemic, whose story has gripped the nation, in factory farms. I read the chapter…