Indigenous Bubble CPAP and Swine Flu Pandemic

Swine flu (S-OIV) pandemic.

Influenza is a disease of global dimension occurring in annual epidemics, and infrequently as pandemic with high attack rates. The annual epidemics result in the host population updating its pool of humoral immunity by exposure to the most recent viruses carrying altered antigenic specificity caused by 'anti-gen shift' in the haemagglutinin (H) ligand. Pandemics are caused by 'antigen drift'. T...

Pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 (swine flu).

Determinants of adults' intention to vaccinate against pandemic swine flu

BACKGROUND Vaccination is one of the cornerstones of controlling an influenza pandemic. To optimise vaccination rates in the general population, ways of identifying determinants that influence decisions to have or not to have a vaccination need to be understood. Therefore, this study aimed to predict intention to have a swine influenza vaccination in an adult population in the UK. An extension ...

swine flu and industrial hygiene

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hajj and swine flu pandemic (h1n1, 2009): what is ex-pected and what should be done?