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  • Editorial: Preparing for the next flu pandemic
  • Editorial: UK preparedness for pandemic influenza
  • Research: Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
  • Article: Ten things your emergency department should consider to prepare for pandemic influenza
  • Patient information: Swine flu - what should you do?
  • BMJ.com blog: Jane Parry on Flu
  • Blog post: case reports on pandemic flu
  • News: Swine flu could come back in more virulent form after summer
  • News: Health department starts to stockpile masks for clinicians to combat swine flu
  • BMJ.com blog: Adrian Gonzalez on swine flu in Mexico
  • BMJ.com blog: BM Hedge on Flu
  • Editorial: Swine Flu
  • News: WHO raises flu pandemic alert to level 5
  • Patient information: Wash your hands to protect against flu
  • Podcast: Financial incentives and potential pandemic
  • News: Confirmation of first person to person transmission of swine flu in UK expected soon
  • News:EU commissioner says pandemic likely, but may not be deadly
  • News: US Congress holds hearings on outbreak of influenza A (H1N1)
  • BMJ Learning audio module: Swine influenza: an update
  • BestPractice monograph: Swine influenza
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  • doc2doc blog: Carlos Cuello’s updates from Mexico
  • Personal View: The flu epidemic in Mexico: the challenges for doctors
  • Swine flu - HPA special
  • Mass information campaign starts in UK as flu cases rise to 28
  • European flu toll reaches 107 confirmed cases
  • Influenza pandemics: why, what, and how to prepare
  • Joe Collier on manoeuvres for avoiding Mexican flu
  • Mairi Scott and Tom Love on pandemic flu training for retired health care professionals
  • Global aid agencies boost support to poorer nations to fight flu threat
  • About the BMJ Pandemic Flu blog
  • A/H1N1 influenza: questions and answers
  • Warning against buying flu drugs online
  • Chief medical officer warns against complacency over swine flu
  • Swine flu, the definitive guide
  • Mexico City returns to normality, but cases of A/H1N1 reach almost 2000 in US
  • Pandemic Flu - an update on ethical dilemas
  • Swine flu: Ethical implications
  • Governments must be pulled up for failings over flu
  • Planning for a pandemic - an up to date guide
  • The problem with flu vaccines
  • UK urges more flexibility in criteria for flu pandemic alerts
  • Number of confirmed swine flu cases could be “tip of iceberg”
  • Swine flu planning
  • Time to rethink the UK’s response to swine flu?
  • Countries hit by swine flu reach 62
  • UK scientific adviser criticises UK planning for flu pandemic
  • Monitoring public anxiety about flu, Keith J Petrie and Kate Faasse
  • World Health Organization declares A (H1N1) influenza pandemic
  • Australia plans to restrict antiretrovirals to high risk cases as swine flu spreads
  • Swine flu fear and loathing in Mexico…and London
  • Swine influenza: an update on recent developments
  • Swine flu comes home: a GP’s tale
  • Annabel Ferriman on questions for Margaret Chan
  • Tom Nolan’s flu blog
  • Use of Tamiflu may need to be rethought as number of swine flu cases in the UK nears 3000
  • Tom Nolan chooses his own swine flu adventure
  • The spread of swine flu
  • Too early to say mild
  • Come swine with me
  • Two more people in UK die from swine flu, as swabbing policy ends in “hot spot” areas
  • Was H1N1 leaked from a laboratory?
  • Who wants to be the flu doctor?
  • Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak
  • Partners in swine
  • UK government predicts 100 000 new A/H1N1 flu cases a day by September
  • Swine flu vaccines and swine tig
  • Who should receive Tamiflu for swine flu?
  • H1N1, the science bit
  • Call for flu research under way
  • … as does policy on antibiotics
  • Policy on antiviral drugs needs to be revised …
  • Are swine flu parties an urban myth?
  • WHO to call on nations with high rates of swine flu to move away from testing all suspected cases
  • How do you monitor swine flu?
  • Celebrity swine watch
  • Cases of A/H1N1 flu are nearing epidemic levels in London and West Midlands, say GPs
  • Patients and doctors are asked to report antivirals’ side effects as swine flu spreads
  • Assessing the severity of the novel influenza A/H1N1 pandemic
  • Healthcare workers should get top priority for vaccination against A/H1N1 flu, WHO says
  • GPs will lead UK’s swine flu vaccination campaign
  • Data on flu deaths are potentially misleading, say researchers
  • Feeling the strain of swine
  • Swine flu forecast
  • Confusion over flu advice in pregnancy
  • England to launch special flu service next week to take pressure off primary care
  • Government tries to end confusion over swine flu advice to pregnant women
  • Prescribing antivirals - is beyond 48 hours too late?
  • A/H1N1 influenza update
  • How well is the UK managing the influenza A/H1N1 pandemic?
  • Who wants to be the flu doctor?
  • "You can’t have swine flu"
  • EU prepares new guidelines for monitoring swine flu
  • Sneeze and Click service launched in England
  • Swine flu website inundated as cases in England double in a week
  • A/H1N1 influenza virus: the basics
  • Swine flu: an update from the HPA
  • Critical care and the pandemic panic
  • Pregnancy and swine flu:
  • Collection point nonsense
  • Doctors call for guidance on how to prioritise critically ill patients in swine flu pandemic
  • Swine flu incidence in England is slowing down
  • Side effects, Tamiflu, and the swine flu hotline
  • How much flu is out there?
  • Time for case-control studies of NSAIDs and oseltamivir
  • HPA advice on antipyretics contradicts NICE guideline
  • The calm, waves of flu, vaccines, and other stories
  • Officials watch events in southern hemisphere as swine flu rates in UK slow down
  • Swine flu: communicating with patients
  • Telephone triage and the flu pandemic
  • Communicating with patients during the swine flu pandemic
  • Latest advice for GPs
  • Neuraminidase inhibitors for treatment and prophylaxis of influenza in children: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
  • Is Tamiflu useful in children or not?
  • Carl Heneghan and Matthew Thompson on Tamiflu in children: what’s all the fuss
  • Figures, jabs, scaling back, and sewage
  • A pandemic of pandemic news
  • Pandemic lessons from Australia
  • Syed Shah on being the first case of influenza A/H1N1 in the United Arab Emirates
  • Tom Nolan on historic flu remedies
  • Pandemic flu: will there be a second wave?
  • Incidence of swine flu in England continues to fall, but winter surge is predicted
  • On swabs, tips, and a flu game
  • Willingness of Hong Kong healthcare workers to accept pre-pandemic influenza vaccination at different WHO alert levels: two questionnaire surveys
  • Should healthcare workers have the swine flu vaccine?
  • The flu will be back after the break
  • Monitoring the emergence of community transmission of swine flu in England
  • Opposition to swine flu vaccine seems to be growing worldwide
  • Swine flu estimated to be 100 times more virulent than seasonal flu
  • Tamiflu - the wrong message?
  • Calibrated response to emerging infections
  • Tamiflu - the wrong message?
  • Antiviral drugs: distinguish treatment from prophylaxis
  • Australia’s swine flu vaccination plans come under fire
  • Should I have an H1N1 flu vaccination after Guillain-Barré syndrome?
  • News: Mental health charities object to contingency plans for flu epidemic
  • News: China gears up for swine flu vaccination as virus spreads inland
  • News: Course of flu epidemic is hard to predict, says UK government adviser
  • News: GPs are to be paid £5.25 a shot for swine flu vaccination
  • Clinical review: Recommendations for the administration of influenza vaccine in children allergic to egg
  • News: Swine flu vaccine is a "thousandfold" safer than the infection, say experts
  • doc2doc: GPs to be paid £100m for giving swine flu vaccine
  • BMJ Learning module: Swine flu vaccination - your questions answered
  • BMJ Learning module: Swine flu - impact on secondary care
  • News: Chief medical officer warns that swine flu may be on the rise again
  • Feature: Flu's unexpected bonus
  • Research: Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses: systematic review
  • News: Children are likely to need two doses of swine flu vaccine
  • News: UN seeks $1.5bn and donations of vaccines to help poor nations fight swine flu
  • News: European agency approves swine flu vaccines for licensing
  • News: People with asthma are most at risk of complications from swine flu, study shows
  • Podcast: Vaccines - Q&A
  • Research: Partial protection of seasonal trivalent inactivated vaccine against novel pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009
  • Editorial: The future of influenza vaccines
  • Mistaken identity: seasonal influenza versus influenza-like illness
  • Blog: A lucky flu break
  • News: WHO will start delivering H1N1 vaccine to 100 poorer nations in November
  • BMJ Learning module: Swine flu - epidemiology - your questions answered
  • JECH Editorial: Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic: true or false alarm
  • JECH Letter: Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic: true or false alarm
  • News: H1N1 vaccination begins as proportion of cases in hospital admitted to intensive care rises
  • News: H1N1 pandemic flu found to cause viral pneumonia in severe cases, says WHO
  • Only 12% of Germans say they will have H1N1 vaccine after row blows up over safety of adjuvants
  • BMJ Learning module: Swine flu vaccination - your questions answered (3)
  • Cases of swine flu in England almost double in a week
  • Best Practice topic: 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus
  • Acceptability of A/H1N1 vaccination during pandemic phase of influenza A/H1N1 in Hong Kong: population based cross sectional survey
  • Tom Nolan on what every doctor should know about the swine flu vaccine
  • News: Number of swine flu patients going into intensive care is rising
  • Does every new influenza reassortant virus qualify as a pandemic virus?
  • Joe Collier on swine flu and ministries of fear
  • BMJ Learning module - Swine flu: secondary care (2)
  • Reassure pregnant women over swine flu vaccine, health officials urge
  • Tom Nolan: New pandemic flu guidelines - don’t forget your oximeter
  • WHO recommends early antiviral treatment for at risk groups with suspected swine flu
  • Deaths from swine flu in UK rise, while cases fall
  • Mary E Black on flu suits and holy water dispensers
  • Influenza surveillance, the swine-flu pandemic, and the importance of virology
  • BMJ Learning module - Swine flu: Glasgow 'Any Flu Questions?'
  • Research: The economy-wide impact of pandemic influenza on the UK - a computable general equilibrium modelling experiment
  • Editorial: The economic impact of pandemic influenza
  • BMJ blog: Informed consent, the doctor, and H1N1 immunisation
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  • Resources for healthcare professionals - UK
  • International resources
  • Resources for patients
  • Patient information on swine flu from the BMJ Group
  • BMJ swine flu news, in collaboration with the Guardian
  • Swine flu: answers
    • Do I really need to have the vaccine? Why?
    • I'm pregnant, should I have the flu vaccine?
    • Do I need the vaccine if I've already had swine flu?
    • Aren't I at increased risk of anaphylaxis if I have the vaccine having already had swine flu?
    • Will the vaccine give me flu?
    • Do flu vaccines cause Guillain Barré Syndrome?
    • Do at risk patients need to have the swine flu vaccine as well as the seasonal flu vaccine? Can I have both vaccines at the same time?
    • What would happen if we did nothing?
    • Swine flu vaccination: frequently asked questions
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