Mon, Apr 27th, 2009 | Business, Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. |

April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Airlines and hog-related stocksslumped in Asia on concern the growing number of swine-flu casesin the U.S. and Mexico will slow a recovery in the globaleconomy and hurt earnings. Medical shares gained. Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s ...Read More

Kids, adults get swine flu shots in Dorchester

Sun, Nov 22nd, 2009 | Health |

Kids, adults get swine flu shots in Dorchester Hundreds of people lined up at Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester yesterday for free swine flu vaccines to ward off a virus that has hit a historic high in Massachusetts weeks before its predicted peak. In the five hours the ...Read More

Mutated Swine Flu Virus Found in Norway

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Health |

Mutated Swine Flu Virus Found in Norway (MYFOX NATIONAL) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said it is investigating three cases of a mutated H1N1 virus in Norway -- two associated with the first two deaths from swine flu symptoms in the country, and one with severe ...Read More

Swine flu kills four in Saudi Arabia on Hajj pilgrimage

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Health |

Swine flu kills four in Saudi Arabia on Hajj pilgrimage Pilgrims were supposed to have been vaccinated before arriving for the Hajj Four pilgrims have died of swine flu as they take part in this year's annual Mecca pilgrimage, Saudi officials say. Three of the victims, a woman from Morocco and ...Read More

Saudi Arabia announces Muslim pilgrimage's first 4 swine flu deaths

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Top Stories, World |

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi health officials announced the first deaths from swine flu of this year's annual pilgrimage to Mecca, as four pilgrims succumbed to the disease soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia. The Health Ministry said none of ...Read More

Swine flu jabs 'still important'

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Health |

Swine flu jabs 'still important' People recommended for Tamiflu should continue to take it, say officials Health officials are warning a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu makes the need for vaccination more important. Five patients at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales appear to have acquired the ...Read More

State reports 11 more deaths from H1N1; total is now 30

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Health |

Maryland health officials reported 11 more swine flu deaths Friday, including three children - bringing the state's total to 30 deaths and 787 hospitalizations from the H1N1 virus. The updated totals come from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's weekly ...Read More

Cluster of four patients at N.C. hospital resistant to swine-flu medicine

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Health |

ATLANTA — Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the ...Read More

WHO investigating possible flu mutation

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Health |

GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Friday that it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear. Norway's Institute of ...Read More

Mass. adult and a child under age 4 die of swine flu

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Health, Most Viewed, Top Stories |

State public health officials announced yesterday the death of two people from swine flu, including a child under the age of 4, underscoring the vulnerability that young people appear to have to the unusual virus. The child is just the second ...Read More

Officials see signs that swine flu may have peaked

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Health |

WASHINGTON — The level of swine flu activity in the United States appears to be declining, although officials are worried about another increase in cases during the Thanksgiving holiday when many people travel and families gather. The number of states reporting ...Read More

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu causes new worry

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Health |

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu causes new worry RALEIGH, N.C. | A cluster of four Tamiflu-resistant cases of H1N1 flu at Duke University Medical Center has raised concerns that changes in the virus may make severe infections more difficult to treat. Three of the Duke patients died. All were ...Read More

Swine Flu Seen as Cresting

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Health |

Swine Flu Seen as Cresting The current wave of swine flu may have peaked in most of the U.S., but the illness remains widespread and the threat of another wave remains, officials said Friday. The news came as officials in Norway reported a mutation of the ...Read More

China to punish those concealing swine flu info

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Health |

BEIJING - China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is ...Read More

Mutated Swine Flu Strains Block Drugs, Worsen Illness

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Health |

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Swine flu infections in which thevirus mutated to a form that’s more severe or less sensitive todrug treatment are being investigated by European and U.S.public health officials. Five patients at a hospital in Wales contracted swine fluthat ...Read More

CDC: 4 people in NC test positive for Tamiflu-resistant swine flu, first such US cluster

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Health |

Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest ...Read More

Swine Flu May Be Peaking In US

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Health |

Filed at 4:27 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the United States, health experts said on Friday. But they stressed that influenza, especially a pandemic, could hit several peaks in a single ...Read More

Swine Flu May Hit Kids With Asthma Harder

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Health |

FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Canadian researchers are reporting that children with asthma are more likely to develop severe cases of H1N1 flu than seasonal flu. "Asthma has been identified as a significant risk factor for admission with pandemic H1N1 ...Read More

Swine Flu Declining in Some Parts of US

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Health, Most Viewed, Top Stories |

FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Some areas of the United States are seeing declines in H1N1 swine flu activity, a federal health official said Friday, and while the disease remains widespread in 43 states, that's down from the 46 ...Read More

Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 cases reported in N.C.

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Top Stories |

Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 cases reported in N.C. The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over. Officials also said they were investigating several troubling outbreaks of drug-resistant H1N1 but ...Read More

UPDATE 1-Swine flu may be peaking in US, reports indicate

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Health |

(For more flu stories click on [ID:nWORLDFLU]) * CDC checking on Tamiflu-resistant cases * 171 confirmed child deaths * 54 million doses of vaccine packaged or given (Adds CDC investigation into drug-resistant cases) WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flumay be ...Read More