• Email
• Tweet

Swine flu coverage by Delthia Ricks

Delthia Ricks, MA, MS, is Newsday's senior Health writer and medical expert. She has published several books on health matters, including 100 Questions and Answers about Influenza, Breast Cancer Basics and Beyond: Treatments, Resources, Self-Help, Good News, Updates (winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award) and 100 Questions & Answers About Hysterectomy, among others.

Ricks holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in English from the University of California, Los Angeles and Columbia University, and an MS in biology from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.

You can e-mail her at delthia.ricks@newsday.com.

FDA Approves Swine Flu Vaccine

• 

  article Long Island 7/26/10 This year's flu vaccines covers H1N1 strain The H1N1 swine flu strain will be included in this year's seasonal flu vaccines, which ...

• 

  article Health 12/8/09 Scientists see H1N1 link to previous flu pandemics Fatal cases of swine flu result from a devastating form of lung damage virtually identical ...

• article Nassau 11/25/09 Three-year-old Nassau girl dies of H1N1 flu A Nassau County child has died of H1N1 flu - the first death on Long ...

• article News 11/15/09 Drug counterfeiters bank on peoples' fear of flu With the H1N1 flu now on a run around the globe, traffickers in fake influenza ...

• 

  article Nassau 10/15/09 Seasonal flu vaccine shortage hits LI Shortage has forced the suspension of flu clinics at pharmacies and malls on Long Island. ...

• 

  article Health 10/11/09 Health care workers protest flu-vaccination order Health care providers gathered on the lawn of Suffolk County’s Health Department in a second ...

• article Nassau 10/11/09 Health care workers protest flu-vaccination order Health care providers from throughout Long Island gathered on the lawn of Suffolk County's Health ...

• 

  article Health 10/10/09 Many uncertain about getting swine flu vaccine Many who oppose vaccination fear the vaccine is untested. ...

• article Long Island 10/10/09 Swine flu myths and facts Public health officials are working to dispel myths about the swine flu vaccine. Here are ...

• article News 9/27/09 Officials predict state workers will get H1N1 vaccine Despite a planned rally in Albany tomorrow to protest a state regulation requiring health care ...

• 

  article Long Island 9/27/09 Mandatory flu vaccination splits workers State health care workers upset over state decree forcing them to get flu shots. ...

• article Long Island 9/21/09 Objections over swine flu vaccine THE OBJECTIONS ...

• 

  article Nassau 9/21/09 LI nurses to rally against mandatory flu vaccines Dozens of Long Island nurses - many from Stony Brook University Medical Center - plan ...

• article Long Island 9/21/09 Swine flu: CDC sets priority groups for vaccinations The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a list of priority groups for H1N1 ...

• article Business 9/17/09 Taking precautions against swine flu The federal government has decided five groups should be first in line for swine flu ...

• article Nassau 9/15/09 Government approves new swine flu vaccine The federal government moved a major step closer to the largest mass immunization campaign in ...

• article Nassau 9/11/09 Study: One swine flu shot enough for adults As federal health officials Friday welcomed clinical results showing just one vaccine dose will be ...

• article Nassau 9/4/09 Swine flu guidelines issued for preschools, day cares Federal swine flu prevention guidelines issued Friday for preschools and day care centers urge providers ...

• article Nassau 9/3/09 Swine flu threat weighed at LI town hall Expect the message on what to do during flu season to change - and possibly ...

• article Nassau 9/1/09 Health officials taking stock of hospital ventilators Local, state and federal health officials will know this month precisely how many mechanical ventilators ...

• 

  article Nassau 8/30/09 LI colleges plan for possible swine flu outbreak Colleges have resident students, which means influenza can smolder and flare in dormitories. ...

• 

  article Long Island 8/30/09 Swine flu’s re-emergence: Questions and answers Swine flu is expected to re-emerge potent and pervasive this fall, infecting as much as ...

• article Obituaries 8/28/09 Mahfouz Zaki, former Suffolk health official, dies Every September for nearly a half century, Dr. Mahfouz Zaki, Suffolk County's former public health ...

• 

  article Long Island 8/24/09 Student wants schools closed until flu vaccine is ready Students usually have had no voice in policies governing school closures or vaccine distribution, but ...

• article Nassau 8/7/09 New guidelines say don't close schools for swine flu New federal guidelines discourage school closures for H1N1 pandemic flu this fall and emphasize that ...

• 

  article Nassau 7/29/09 Young, pregnant advised to get first flu shots Pregnant women, children, young adults and anyone - except the elderly - with medical conditions ...

• article Suffolk 7/24/09 Seasonal flu vaccines urged for school-age children Federal health officials Friday strongly urged parents to have school-age children vaccinated against seasonal flu ...

• article Health 7/9/09 At swine flu summit, school nurse touts cell phone use BETHESDA, Md. - Cell phones, the bane of many a school administrator, turned out to ...

• article Health 7/9/09 100 million swine flu vaccine doses expected by October BETHESDA, MD. - Federal public health authorities hope to have 100 million doses of swine ...

• article News 7/9/09 At swine flu summit, school nurse touts cell phone use BETHESDA, Md. - Cell phones, the bane of many a school administrator, turned out to ...

• article News 7/9/09 100 million swine flu vaccine doses expected by October BETHESDA, MD. - Federal public health authorities hope to have 100 million doses of swine ...

• article News 6/11/09 Amid swine flu pandemic, doubts about vaccine As the World Health Organization declared a global flu pandemic Thursday, raising the alert to ...

• article News 5/28/09 More swine flu cases; most mild, say officials Additional swine flu cases have been confirmed on Long ...

• article News 5/28/09 Officials: More LI swine flu cases, most are mild Additional swine flu cases have been confirmed on Long Island but health officials say most ...

• article News 5/27/09 Vaccine maker gets 'seed' Sanofi Pasteur, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, ...

• article News 5/27/09 Swine flu closes more schools New swine flu cases and large numbers of students with ...

• article News 5/27/09 More school closings because of swine flu outbreak New swine flu cases and large numbers of students with flu-like symptoms led officials on ...

• article News 5/23/09 Flu bugs abound - ask doc who has one Dr. Maureen Crowley knows from personal experience that ...

• article Region/State 5/23/09 Flu bugs seem to be everywhere - as doc who has one Dr. Maureen Crowley knows from personal experience that seasonal flu viruses are lingering longer in ...

• article News 5/22/09 Swine flu shot could be 2-dose regimen If the envisioned swine flu vaccine is completed later ...

• article News 5/20/09 School closures tricky As two Nassau districts close several schools in the ...

• article News 5/18/09 Stalling flu without vaccines School closings, hand-washing hygiene and quarantine ...

• article News 5/18/09 School districts will stay open Five Long Island school districts that have had confirmed ...

• article News 5/18/09 Stalling flu's spread without vaccines School closings, hand-washing hygiene and quarantine have all evolved from age-old public health practices known ...

• article News 5/13/09 6,000 worldwide hit by hybrid flu bug GENEVA - H1N1 flu has now reached Cuba, Finland and ...

• article News 5/12/09 Decades-old swine flu vaccine work renewed Dr. Mahfouz Zaki, serving as medical director of the ...

• article News 5/12/09 Ramping up to work on swine flu vaccine Dr. Mahfouz Zaki, serving as medical director of the Suffolk County Health Department 33 years ...

• article News 5/9/09 Swine flu teams look south As swine flu smolders across the United States and ...

• article News 5/9/09 Flu trackers focus on cases in Southern Hemisphere As swine flu smolders across the United States and Mexico, with cases rising but remaining ...

• article News 5/8/09 LI boosts state swine-flu cases A large backlog of swine-flu specimens from a Long ...

• article News 5/8/09 LI backlog boosts statewide total of swine flu cases A large backlog of swine-flu specimens from a Long Island medical center caused the statewide ...

• article News 5/8/09 Flu trackers focus on cases in southern hemisphere As swine flu smolders across the United States and Mexico, with cases rising but remaining ...

• article News 5/6/09 3 new cases in Nassau; officials back off Three new cases of swine flu were confirmed by the ...

• article News 5/6/09 New swine flu cases reported but illness downplayed Three new cases of swine flu were confirmed by the Nassau County Health Department Wednesday ...

• article News 5/2/09 Learning lessons from panics past On March 24, 1976, President Gerald Ford pressed the ...

• article News 5/2/09 Learning lessons from swine flu panic of 1976 On March 24, 1976, President Gerald Ford pressed the panic button. ...

• article News 4/29/09 Virus claims first U.S. death A swine-flu infected toddler from Mexico has become the ...

• article News 4/29/09 Toddler from Mexico first to die of swine flu in U.S. A swine-flu infected toddler from Mexico has become the first to die of the virus ...

• article News 4/28/09 MUTATION: Scientists try to trace crossover to humans The swine flu virus that is smoldering in this country ...

• article News 4/28/09 Swine flu a rare virus to jump species barrier The swine flu virus that is smoldering in this country and triggering a full-blown outbreak ...

• article News 4/27/09 The search for a shot in arm Federal scientists have the raw material in hand - what ...

• article News 4/27/09 Scientists face questions on swine flu vaccine Federal scientists have the raw material in hand - what they call "seed stock" of ...

• article News 4/26/09 THE SCIENCE: Experts working to stem spread Warning that influenza viruses are exceptionally ...

• article News 4/26/09 SAFETY: LI hospitals monitoring data As Queens high school students streamed into two Long ...

• article News 4/26/09 Symptoms of swine versus seasonal flu strains Many of the symptoms of swine flu are shared with seasonal flu and even other ...

• article News 4/26/09 Emergency center in Syosset monitors flu, patient data As Queens high school students streamed into two Long Island emergency rooms over the weekend ...

• article News 4/26/09 Experts: Expect more swine flu cases -- and deaths Warning that influenza viruses are exceptionally unpredictable, experts monitoring the swine flu outbreak said Sunday ...

• article News 4/25/09 Q&A: THE NEW SWINE FLU Is it contagious? ...

• article News 4/24/09 Mexico flu deaths raise global fears MEXICO CITY - Mexico shut down schools, museums, ...

• article News 5/15/07 Briefing USDA: Pork products safe ...

• article News 12/28/06 FDA: 'Cloned food' safe The public wants to be certain that products from cloned ...

• article News 4/13/05 A vow to block '57 flu bug An error that allowed global shipment of a potentially ...

• article News 11/7/04 Preparing for a global outbreak When public health officials and vaccine manufacturers ...

• article Newsday 9/22/03 The Flu Factor In Bioterrorism The very mention of the words anthrax or smallpox can ...

• article News 4/27/02 The Vaccination Question / Policy to be drafted on smallpox inoculation Public health experts next month will begin drafting a ...