Swine Flu

Louisiana is clear for the moment, but human cases of swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection have been identified in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control have created a Swine Influenza (Flu) page at http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/index.htm

It includes incidence of U.S. Swine Flu Infection, currently at 20 cases in California, Kansas, Ohio, Texas and New York City.

More from CDC:
Interim CDC Guidance for Nonpharmaceutical Community Mitigation in Response to Human Infections with Swine Influenza (H1N1) Virus: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/mitigation.htm

Guidance for Clinicians & Public Health Professionals: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/guidance/

For international information & global statistics, see the the World Health Organization’s Swine flu page:
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html

For folks in Louisiana, the State Dept. of Health and Hospitals encourages “Aggressive Prevention” Against Swine Flu:
http://wwwprd.doa.louisiana.gov/LaNews/PublicPages/Dsp_PressRelease_Display.cfm?PressReleaseID=2019&Rec_ID=0

The White House also issued a press briefing on Swine Influenza:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Press-Briefing-On-Swine-Influenza-4/26/09/

Consumer Health, Infectious Diseases | Permalink | 5 Comments | Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 by Knapp, Maureen

5 Responses to Swine Flu

  1. Jennifer Lloyd says:
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    Have you seen the Google Maps tracker?
    http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.650649,-116.139221&spn=151.498363,358.59375&z=1

  2. Knapp, Maureen says:
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    Neat link! I also like this article by the food columnist Judy Walker for the Times-Pic: OK, everybody chill: You cannot get swine flu from eating pork

  3. Knapp, Maureen says:
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Swine flu en espanol: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/swineflu.html#a5

  4. Jennifer Lloyd says:
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 4:02 pm

    I would be more worried about trichinosis than swine flu from eating pork.

  5. Knapp, Maureen says:
    Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Environmental Health & Toxicology info for swine flu (SIS)
    http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/swineflu.html
    The SIS web page contains information from several U.S. and international agencies and organizations, treatment information, genetic sequence data, information in Spanish, searches of PubMed and the NLM Catalog, and more.

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