's profits and its sales drop, the swine flu pandemic couldn't have come at a better time for the drug company.
If the swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 was part of this pattern, the crossing of viral strains must have had something to do with birds as well as pigs.
Up until a couple of years ago there were no vaccines routinely offered to pregnant women in the UK. The swine flu pandemic changed that, and now all pregnant women are offered a seasonal flu jab.
Paul Flynn MP, who is part of a Council of Europe investigation into allegations of drug company influence on the World Health Organisation and government policies, reacts to the government's handling of a possible swine flu pandemic.
At the same time, an alphabet soup of influenzas, including the new H7N9 outbreak in China, smoldering incidents of H5N1 bird flu in Southeast Asia, and even periodic reminders of the 2009 H1NI swine flu pandemic, remain front of mind.
Researchers at the University of Iowa, studying the 2009 swine flu pandemic, compared fluctuations in the use of certain phrases on Twitter with flu cases reported through the US Centre for Disease Control, which has its own sophisticated flu surveillance system.
The H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic killed about 300, 000 people worldwide.
He is the author of False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear and the forthcoming Swine Flu: The New Pandemic.
Last year, all children between six months and five years were offered the pandemic H1N1 swine flu jab.
Swine flu is already a global pandemic, with more than 160, 000 cases and 1, 154 deaths recorded worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
The three most recent outbreaks of SARS, bird flu and swine flu indicate that the next pandemic is likely to be zoonotic in origin.
The research is a first step toward U.S. health officials' goal of developing a safe and effective vaccine against H1N1, also known as swine flu, which has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization.
CNN: School: No shortage of volunteers for swine flu vaccine trials
Somewhere along the line, H3N2 and H1N1 viruses were present in a mammal at the same time, and the "matrix-gene" (or m-gene) from the H1N1 pandemic virus was picked up by the H3N2 swine flu, creating a new or variant version of H3N2.
Somewhere along the line, H3N2 and H1N1 viruses were present in a mammal at the same time and the "matrix-gene" (or m-gene) from the H1N1 pandemic virus was picked up by the H3N2 swine flu, thus creating a new or variant version of H3N2.
The World Health Organization on Monday raised its pandemic alert level in response to the outbreak of swine flu that originated in Mexico.
Such cases are monitored very closely because of fears that a new strain of swine flu with the ability to pass from person to person could spark a pandemic.
This is the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has ramped up its resources to tackle swine flu, a new disease that experts say may evolve into a global pandemic.
Swine flu (H1N1) infected a fifth of people during the first year of the pandemic in 2009, data suggest.
England's chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson said the WHO declaration of a pandemic would not significantly change the way the UK was dealing with swine flu at the moment.
However, he added that it was unusual for a pandemic to "take off" at this time of year in the way swine flu had.
The PHA is expected to release details of swine flu deaths every Thursday after previously insisting it was only obliged to publicise the information when the virus reached pandemic status.
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