SF News Let's Do Shots: H1N1 Yes, the SF Public Health Department invites you to do shots with them, swine flu shots, that is. If you missed the big vaccination extravaganza at the Bill Graham Auditorium before the holidays,
SF News Swinestock! While we're on the subject of vaccinations, it seems the supply of H1N1 vaccine is starting to catch up with demand, so the San Francisco Department of Public Health is holding a free
SF News Map: Google Flu Shots, Flu Trends Gosh. Everybody seems to be getting a flu shot, getting the flu, or freaking out about something flu-related. So, who are we not to throw fat on fire? We came across Google's new
SF News Humans Infecting Pets With H1N1? While the rest of the world frets over long vaccine lines, or lack of vaccine doses, we have pressing news for you today: transmitting H1N1 to your cat or dog. Up until last
SF News Swine Flu: Don't Panic, But Yes, Panic. There were plenty of predictions this past spring that the H1N1 virus was going to come back to bite us in the ass this winter, and last week a White House advisory panel
SF News Castro Bar Owner Dies of Swine Flu In a truly sad note this morning, Doug Murphy, co-owner of Moby Dick and, most recently, Blackbird, died Friday due to complications from the H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu. He was
SF News Swine Flu Outbreak at San Quinten? A quarantine has been "expanded" at San Quentin due to a probable outbreak of the swine flu epidemic. KTVU reports that "Luis Patino, a spokesman for the federal receiver who oversees medical care
SF News Five Bay Area Pregnant Women Contract Swine Flu CBS5 reports that at least five Bay Area pregnant women in their early third trimesters have been admitted to intensive care units due to complications with the H1N1 swine flu. Two of the
SF News Swine Flu Watch: Pandemic Following on the heels of yesterday's East Bay flu fatality, making it the third reported H1N1-related casualty in the Bay Area, the World Health Organization upgraded the swine flu to pandemic status today.
SF News Bay Area Piggy Flu Panic Reaching Fever Pitch There are multiple stories from multiple news sources this gray Monday morning concerning all the Bay Area school closures that have been announced due to swine flu fears, and a few scattered cases.
SF News Bring on the Swine Flu Miracle Cure Spam There has just been a confirmed case of swine flu in San Francisco -- yikes! Our Gmail account efficiently filters out all undesirable emails, but we hear there's been an onslaught of swine
SF News Swine Flu Update: Triage Tents, Number Counts, & Threat Levels Cabo San Lucas turns into a ghost town, more schools close in the East Bay, WHO raises pandemic threat level to 5, hand sanitizer flying off shelves -- Swine Flu Watch 2K9 is
SF News WHO Raises Influenza Pandemic Threat Level To 5 With 148 cases of swine flu in nine countries (Mexico has 26, including seven deaths; the U.S. has 91, with one death—14 in California), the World Health Organization raised the influenza
misc Photo du Jour 299 Swine flu-fearing travelers exit from the international terminal with their faces covered with masks at the SFO on Tuesday.
SF News Swine Flu Cases Close Bay Area Schools After one confirmed case of swine flu and thee other possible cases, two Bay Area schools have closed. First, San Jose's Branham High School will be shut down for a week after a
SF News Schwarzenegger Declares Swine Flu Emergency in California What with the swine flu breaking out in Sacramento, Marin County, and "the possibility that a California man may have died from the disease" (which, actually, wasn't the case) California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
SF News 2 Swine Flu Cases In Marin The first two cases of swine flu were just discovered last night. Two Marin residents, an unidentified 60-year-old woman and her 20-month-old granddaughter, just tested positive for swine flu. Both of them, it
SF News Newsom Urges Calm as Swine Flu Approaches While the Feds want you to nix your travel plans to Mexico and Governor Schwarzenegger says California is (allegedly) prepared for Influenza Watch 2K9, Mayor Gavin Newsom's team says there's no need to
SF News Australians, Hong Kong-ians Panic About Incoming Swine Flu From San Francisco The insane worldwide panic preceding a potential (though unlikely?) worldwide pandemic of swine flu reached new heights today, with Australian flights from California being screened before deplaning and a woman in Hong Kong
SF News CDC Hits Twitter For Swine Flu Updates In case you can't get enough swine flu information, be sure to follow the Centers for Disease Control's Twitter accounts. CNET has the scoop: "@CDCemergency... is posting new recommendations, bulletins on confirmed cases,
SF News Ahnuld Says California Is Ready For Swine Flu Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a press conference to reassure California residents that the state is ready to deal with the swine flu, "I can assure you that at this time there is no
SF News Swine Flu Map View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map Adding to the paranoia that is Swine Flu Tracker 2009, here's a handy map that shows reported cases of the flu throughout the U.S.
SF News Sacramento Co. May Have Swine Flu Case Now that swine flu hysteria is taking root, Sacramento County may have uncovered a case of swine flu, according to the Sacramento County Health Officer Dr. Glennah Trochet. This would make it Northern
SF News U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu "Much like the government does to prepare for approaching hurricanes," reports AP, the U.S. government officially declared a public health emergency today due to the swine flu. So far, conformed outbreaks are