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2009 Apr 23 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
OPERATOR: Good afternoon and thank you all for holding. At this time your lines have been placed on listen-only until we open up for questions and answers. Please be advised today's co...
2009 Apr 24 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
GLENN (ph): I’m a chief of media relations here at the Center for Disease Control Prevention, and we’re here to give an update on human swine food investigation and cases. With us today...
2009 Apr 25 Update on the CDC Investigation of Human Cases of Swine Influenza
Glen Nowak: THANK YOU. AND THANKS TO ALL OF THE FOLKS WHO HAVE DIALED INTO TODAY OF THIS MEDIA AVAILABILITY OF CDC INVESTIGATION OF SWINE INFLUENZA. ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO NOTE FOR P...
2009 Apr 26 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
Dr. Anne Shuchat: GOOD AFTERNOON. I WANT TO FIRST GIVE YOU A FEW OPENING REMARKS, SOME BRIEF UPDATES AND THEN HAVE LOTS OF TIME FOR QUESTIONS WITH YOU. YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE BEEN SAYIN...
2009 Apr 27 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
THANK YOU, THIS IS GLEN NOWAK. I′M DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, AND WE WELCOME YOU TODAY ON THE BRIEFING FOR THE SWINE INFLUENZA. DR. BE...
2009 Apr 27 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Issues Travel Health Warning
CDC Recommendations At this time, CDC recommends that U.S. travelers avoid all nonessential travel to Mexico. Changes to this recommendation will be posted at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/trav...
2009 Apr 28 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
Before I start, I wanted to call the media's attention to three new e-mail addresses that we have brought online today to help us manage, as you can imagine, a relatively high volume of m...
2009 Apr 30 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
Welcome all to H1N1. You can imagine there's a lot of media interest and a lot of reporters calling in. So do limit yourself to one question. We will turn it over to Dr. Richard Besser...
2009 May 19 CDC Telebriefing on Investigation of Human Cases of H1N1 Flu
Anne Schuchat: Good afternoon, everyone. The H1N1 virus continues to circulate in the United States and in many other countries. As you know the World Health Assembly has been meeting thi...
2009 May 20 CDC and CDC Foundation Media Telebriefing Release Final Report of Expert Panel
Lola Russell: Good afternoon. My name is Lola Russell, as she said earlier, I am with the Centers for CDC press office. Today, the CDC and CDC Foundation will be holding a telebriefing ...
2009 May 22 Update on the Novel Influenza A H1N1 Virus and New Findings Published
Glen Nowak: Thank you, and my apologies to all the reporters who tried to call in, and ran into a dead line, as I understand it. We've been working with our phone services to fix that pr...
2009 May 26 CDC Telebriefing on Investigation of Human Cases of H1N1 Flu
Dave Daigle: Thank you Angie, this is Dave Daigle from CDC Media Relations. Today, we'll update the emergency response of the novel H1N1 flu outbreak with Dr. Anne Schuchat, our director...
2009 Jun 4 CDC Telebriefing on Investigation of Human Cases of H1N1 Flu
Joe Quimby: Good afternoon to everybody. I’m Joe Quimby from the Division of Media Relations here at the CDC. Thank you all for joining us. With us today to provide opening remarks, tak...
2009 Jun 8 Thomas R. Frieden Becomes Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., today became the 16th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease R...
2009 Jun 25 CDC Estimates that Number of Americans Infected with Swine Flu has Reached 1 Million
An estimated 1 million Americans have been infected with the H1N1 swine flu, which continues to produce mild illness and a fairly quick recovery in patients, U.S. health officials said Th...
2009 Jul 7 Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization Holds Special Meeting to Discuss H1N1 Vaccine Recommendations
On 7 July 2009, the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization held an extraordinary meeting in Geneva to discuss issues and make recommendations related to vaccine for t...
2009 Jul 28 Researchers Report on Study of of H1N1 Virus in Milwaukee
How severe is the H1N1 influenza? And why were there so many cases in Milwaukee this spring and summer? "The hardest and, globally, the most important question, is the severity," said ...
2009 Jul 29 CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Meets to Make Recommendations on Who Should Receive H1N1 Vaccine Once it is Available
Every flu season has the potential to cause a lot of illness, doctor’s visits, hospitalizations and deaths. CDC is concerned that the new H1N1 flu virus could result in a particularly se...
2009 Sep 1 Wake Forest University Identifies Over 80 Cases of H1N1 or Swine Flu
The Winston-Salem Journal reported Tuesday that Wake Forest University plans to continue with classes as usual, though students who aren't feeling well have been told to stay home. Uni...
2009 Sep 2 Emory University Sequesters Students with Flu-Like Symptoms in an Attempt to Avoid Swine Flu Outbreak
Officials with Emory University in Atlanta say around 50 students with swine flu have been moved to a separate dorm. Those students are not attending classes and school workers are bringi...
2009 Sep 4 Centers for Disease Control Release Early Study on Deaths from H1N1 Virus, Commonly Known as Swine Flu
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says his kids are going to get the swine flu vaccine when it's available. Dr. Thomas Frieden says health officials have ...
2009 Sep 18 US Federal Health Officials Announce H1N1 Flu Vaccine to Arrive by First Week of October
More than three million doses of swine flu vaccine will be available by the first week of October, a little earlier than had been anticipated, federal health officials announced Friday. ...
2009 Sep 30 United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces Arrival of H1N1 Flu Vaccine Amid Fears of Side-Effects
After all the waiting and worrying, the first of the swine flu vaccines will begin arriving in the United States next week. They are coming just in time, as doctors across the country, pa...
2009 Oct 5 Nationwide H1N1 Vaccination Campaign Begins in United States
Doctors, nurses and other health-care workers in Indiana and Tennessee will receive the first doses of swine flu vaccine Monday as the federal government launches the most ambitious vacci...
2009 Oct 12 Centers for Disease Control Address Confusion and Fears Regarding H1N1 versus Seasonal Flu Vaccines
Buried on page 12 of Saturday's Sun is news that 76 U.S. children have died of the H1N1 virus. The front page has a story about a worried mom, throwing the baby out with the bath water ("...
2009 Oct 12 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Begin Distribution of Injectable H1N1 Flu Vaccine
Both the flu shot (in the arm) and nasal spray form of 2009 H1N1 vaccines have now been produced and licensed by the Food and Drug Administration. The federal government has purchased a t...
2009 Nov 12 Centers for Disease Control Estimates 22 Million Cases of H1N1 Flu in US
At least 22 million Americans have come down with the H1N1 swine flu since the virus first surfaced in April and approximately 3,900 people have died, including an estimated 540 children,...
2009 Nov 23 CDC Reports that H1N1 Flu Activity is Down
Although 43 states have reported widespread influenza activity for the week ended Nov. 14, numbers appear to be dropping, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted Friday. I...
2009 Dec 7 Health Officials Announce H1N1 Vaccine Soon to Become Widely Available
Restrictions limiting the H1N1 flu vaccine to high-risk groups could be lifted in many U.S. states now that production of the vaccine has increased, state health officials said Monday. ...
2009 Dec 10 CDC Estimates that the H1N1 Flu has Killed 10,000 Americans since April
H1N1 swine flu killed 10,000 Americans, sent 213,000 to the hospital, and sickened 50 million -- a sixth of the population -- by mid-November, the CDC estimates. The CDC's new estimat...