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News: UK government predicts 100 000 new A/H1N1 flu cases a day by September

From Pandemic Flu blog on 03 July 2009

To view this content, follow this link: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/jul03_2/b2721 The UK government is planning for a rapid rise in the number of cases of A/H1N1 flu and is limiting provision of antiviral drugs to people with symptoms, while excluding asymptomatic contacts of infected people …more...

The earliest 1918 pandemic “influenza” case report?

From BMJ Case Reports blog on 03 July 2009

King Alfonso of Spain appears to be the first case reported in the newspapers in May 1918 followed by several cases in the medical press including a case series of fifty in July 1918 in the BMJ. I’ve been looking for the earliest case reports of the flu in 1918 which seems to have first been more...

Tom Nolan: Partners in swine

From Pandemic Flu blog on 03 July 2009

To view this content, follow this link: http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/07/03/tom-nolan-partners-in-swine/ Yesterday I attended the Department of Health briefing on swine flu where the suave new secretary of state for health, Andy Burnham, and his partner in swine, Sir Liam Donaldson, gave an update …more...

Get thee to the JME site to read our new medical ethics soap

From Journal of Medical Ethics blog on 03 July 2009

For the few reprobates among our blog readers who are not regular visitors to our parent journal’s web-site I thought that I should point out that this months issue of the JME contains the first instalment of our new medical ethics “soap” Eyewitness in Erewhon academic hospital So, if you think that moral philosophy is too more...

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