The State has “totally mismanaged” the issue of children who claim to suffer from narcolepsy after being vaccinated for swine flu, according to the father of one such patient.
The State has “totally mismanaged” the issue of children who claim to suffer from narcolepsy after being vaccinated for swine flu, according to the father of one such patient.
The swine flu has officially returned to Ireland.
MOREParents suing the state over side-effects from a swine flu vaccine say that the jab was rushed into use before getting full approval.
MOREA Belfast schoolboy has been diagnosed with swine flu.
MOREThe flu outbreak has claimed a total of 15 lives this winter. Three more deaths have been reported in the last week.
MOREA study into swine-flu transmission has found that boys will generally infect boys, while girls mainly pass the virus to other girls.
MOREIt is being reported that another person has died from swine flu in Ireland.
MORETwo young children with swine flu have died in the North today.
MOREThe HSE is reiterating its call for people in at risk groups to get the flu vaccine.
MORETwo people have died in the last week after suffering from flu, health chiefs revealed today.
MOREVisiting restrictions have been put in place at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick due to an increase in H1N1 flu cases at the hospital.
MOREGPs and emergency units are continuing to feel the strain today as swine flu spreads.
MOREThe HSE has confirmed its ordered an extra 100,000 seasonal flu vaccines to help combat the swine flu virus.
MOREThere is an urgent call this weekend for the Government to reopen closed hospital wards in a bid to prevent a major swine flu crisis.
MOREHealth chiefs confirmed 26 patients were tonight being treated in intensive care units for flu.
MOREThe number of swine flu cases recorded in the country has doubled in the past week, with 26 people currently being treated in intensive care units.
MOREEleven more people have died from flu across the UK, taking the total to 50, the Health Protection Agency said today.
MOREAround 25 elective surgical procedures have been cancelled at Galway University Hospital due to a spike in seasonal and swine flu.
MOREThe HSE is urging anyone who has not already received the seasonal flu vaccine - which protects against the H1N1 strain - to get it.
MOREA father died of suspected swine flu just 10 days after his wedding.
MOREThe HSE is advising people to get the flu vaccine, which this year also protects against swine flu.
MOREDoctors at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin are attempting to contain an outbreak of swine flu.
MORETwo thirds of the swine flu vaccine is said to remain unused - as the national swine flu vaccination programme comes to an end this week.
MOREExperts will investigate the World Health Organisation's response to the swine flu outbreak and probably examine whether it could have been clearer when it declared a pandemic of what turned out to be a relatively mild disease.
MORESwine flu jabs will be introduced into the workplace next month.
MOREAn estimated 15% of people in Ireland have contracted swine flu since the outbreak of the virus last spring.
MOREThe Department of Health is today urging people who are at risk of getting swine flu and who have not got the vaccine to do so.
MORESwine flu rates have peaked but public health experts are warning a second wave of the pandemic is likely.
MORESwine flu has claimed another victim in the North, it was announced today, taking to 17 the number of people with the virus who have died in the region so far.
MOREThe rate of swine flu has halved since last week with 149 people being treated in hospital, 10 of those in intensive care.
MOREThe Department of Health says it is concerned about the rate of swine flu infection among children aged less than five.
MOREA dog in suburban New York is the first in the US confirmed to be carrying the same strain of swine flu that is infecting humans.
MOREA nine-year-old child has died after catching swine flu in the North, it was confirmed today.
MORENorth Korea has acknowledged for the first time that swine flu had hit the nation, a day after South Korea’s president offered to help the impoverished neighbour fight the virus reported to have already killed dozens.
MOREA woman from the south of the country has become the latest person to die from swine flu.
MOREPoland’s ombudsman has asked prosecutors to investigate the government for refusing to import swine flu vaccines, calling it an “unacceptable” failure that endangers public health.
MOREPharmacists around Ireland should get the swine flu vaccine as soon as possible, the head of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), the pharmacy regulator, has said today.
MOREMore than a million people at high risk from swine flu have been vaccinated in the UK, according to British government estimates out today.
MORETamiflu-resistant swine flu which has broken out in Wales will become much more common as the virus mutates, a flu expert said today.
MORESwine flu has claimed the lives of two more people in the North in the past week.
MORETwo people in China who received swine flu vaccinations have died in the past week.
MOREMore than 6,200 people worldwide have now died from swine flu, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.
MOREThe Health Minister is urging pregnant women to avail of the swine flu vaccine following the latest deaths from the virus this week.
MOREA pregnant woman and a child with swine flu have died in the last week, it emerged today.
MORESwine flu has claimed another victim in the North, the Health minister announced today.
MOREChildren under five are expected to be offered the swine flu vaccination later this month.
MOREThe next phase of the national swine flu vaccination programme is getting underway.
MOREAs the second week of the national swine flu vaccination programme begins, it is thought that 28,000 people have now been vaccinated at the HSE's back-up clinics around the country.
MOREA number of hospitals will enforce new restrictions on visitations in a bid to prevent a spread of swine flu from today.
MOREFour people with swine flu have died in the last week bringing the total death toll to 14, it was confirmed tonight.
MOREA nine-year-old girl and a 65-year-old woman have become the latest victims of swine flu in the North, it was revealed today.
MOREMinister for Health Mary Harney says it could take six to eight months to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu.
MOREHealth Minister Mary Harney is urging everyone to avail of the swine flu vaccine.
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