Mr Healey forced Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to the despatch box to answer an urgent question on swine flu on 10 January 2011.
Eight British schoolchildren remained in hospital in China on Monday after contracting swine flu on a trip to the country, the Foreign Office said.
Germany and Austria became the latest European countries to report swine flu on Wednesday, while the number of cases increased in the United Kingdom and Spain.
The family is an 87-year-old man who died from bird flu on 4 March, along with one of his sons who died of pneumonia who tested negative for the virus.
N1 avian flu, on a farm in Suffolk, turkeys are still in the news.
For the most part, our strategy for preparing for pandemic flu focuses on the development of vaccines.
The city of Somerville, for example, ran out of flu vaccine on Thursday.
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The state of Pennsylvania used a similar ESRI program in 2001 to contain a bird flu outbreak on several farms.
Beijing residents are complaining that the World Health Organisation's H7N9 bird flu updates on its Chinese website are too slow, notes Global Times.
Melbourne-based company CSL Ltd. plans to test a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, on 240 volunteers, a company representative said.
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The flu vaccine is comprised of killed or inactivated virus (three most likely strains of flu virus based on predictions from the previous flu season).
The long and short of it is, the flu shot seems to be cutting back significantly on flu cases, which will benefit us all.
It is an exhaustive study of this country's vaccine war on flu.
In mice it was found to effective against strains which were resistant to the two flu antivirals currently on the market, the journal Science reported.
The CDC is advising airline crew members who have arrived from domestic and international areas affected by the swine flu to be on the lookout for ill passengers.
As the flu season rages on, most of us try to practice good hygiene by washing our hands, avoiding close contact with others who are ill, and getting a flu shot.
"In order not to have a negative effect on our industry, especially under this crisis situation, we decided to call it 'novel flu' from now on, " said Androulla Vassiliou, the European commissioner for health.
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On bird flu, Xinhua says two new H7N9 cases were recorded in Shanghai and another two in neighbouring Zhejiang province on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases nationwide to 28.
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.
Earlier Friday, United Flight 903 was diverted to Boston, Massachusetts, on Friday after a female passenger started complaining of "flu-like" symptoms on a Munich-to-Washington flight, Logan Airport spokesman Phil Orendella said.
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The actors on any number of indistinguishable cop shows are entertaining, affable, gruff or quirky, but I'd turn to "The Good Wife's" long-term development any day ... and the only reason I got hooked on it is because I spent a flu-ridden week catching up on the first two seasons.
While researchers haven't developed a vaccine to fight the new swine flu, it can be treated with antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, the same drugs used on the regular flu.
They said if there's any real tangible achievement from this summit, it will be on bird flu.
The flu has affected people on both coasts and almost everywhere in between.
Other tourism-related stocks in Hong Kong also fell sharply on the flu concerns, with China Travel International Investment Hong Kong Ltd.
Another possibility: make sure more flu shots are manufactured on U.S. soil.
Delta is also cutting its weekly frequency between Atlanta and Detroit to Mexico City due to the flu's impact on consumers' travel plans.
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His family lives in the village of La Gloria in the state of Veracruz, where a flu outbreak was reported on April 2.
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