Swine Flu

Funeral held for Calvert County family stricken with flu

2012-03-14 18:03:00

Lou Ruth Blake was the family's matriarch who sang in the church choir and organized gospel shows. Lowell Frederick Blake liked to make people laugh. Venessa Marie Blake was the ardent churchgoer with a contagious smile. All three family members died...

Flu season off to a slow start; vaccine still available

2012-02-23 02:40:00

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that flu cases have begun to creep up in February, making it one of the latest starts to the influenza season in almost three decades. There are a few flu strains circulating, including H1N1, but...

After slow start, flu season ramps up in Maryland

2012-03-16 17:09:16

It's nearly spring, temperatures in the 70s, yet the flu waited until now to ramp up in Maryland, killing three members of a Calvert County family. Usually, flu season strikes earlier. By this time last year, the flu had been widespread and had already...

Calvert County family members all had the flu

2012-03-09 06:25:00

State health officials say today that lab tests confirm all�four members of a Calvert County family striken with a severe respiratory illness�in recent weeks�had�the H3N2 strain of influenza A, a strain of the flu that has been going around this season....

Federal funding for regional disaster preparedness in doubt

2012-02-09 00:00:00

If a tanker truck full of dangerous chemicals flipped on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County, a locally based, highly trained and well-equipped hazardous materials unit would be able to respond in a flash. When the H1N1 flu virus posed serious threats...

Funding for regional disaster operations on chopping block

2012-02-07 06:43:16

When Howard County decided it wanted a system for disseminating emergency information to its citizens via text message, it tapped into a pool of federal funding to create NotifyMeHoward, which launched in November. When the H1N1 flu virus posed serious...

Funds for regional disaster preparedness facing cuts

2012-02-12 15:55:27

If a large-scale terror attack were to occur in the Port of Baltimore, responders from Carroll and other counties would be able to coordinate assistance efforts with city responders — thanks in large part to the region's Central Maryland Area...

Boy, 12, clinging to life after 'senseless' shooting

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Meggett, often a confounding personality, must carry the Terps

2011-08-09 16:31:00

New Maryland football coach Randy Edsall has three preset buttons on his car radio: sports talk, news talk and country. But none of those options appealed to Davin Meggett, the fourth-year captain who Edsall says will be his "workhorse" running back this...

Flu spread raises alarm

2009-04-28 00:00:00

Officials advised Monday against most travel to Mexico, the center of an outbreak of swine flu suspected of killing almost 150 people there and sickening at least 50 through its spread to the United States. The acting director of the Centers for...

Howard reaches out to Asian communities for flu shots

2010-01-25 00:00:00

Bianca Chang scurried around the cafeteria of Howard High School urging parents of students in the Sunday Chinese school to get a swine flu shot. Just down the hall, the Howard County Health Department was running a vaccination clinic for the region's...

Random Saturday morning thoughts on the flu and pork

2009-10-17 16:22:11

Over breakfast I was watching an absolutely fascinating program about the H1N1 swine flu on C-Span. It's still going on. (Andrew Pekosz, an associate professor at the Hopkins School of Public Health is the guest.) I finally had to stop......

A woman receives a dose of a trivalent vaccine (a three component vaccine) for seasonal flu, influenza A (H1N1) and N2H3 in a subway station in Mexico City.

2012-03-25 00:00:00

. A new outbreak of H1N1 in northern Mexico, which left four dead in the past week, originated in the southern United States, the Chihuahua state governor said Monday.

2011-03-29 00:00:00

. A new outbreak of H1N1 in northern Mexico, which left four dead in the past week, originated in the southern United States, the Chihuahua state governor said.

2011-03-28 00:00:00