Swine flu is expected to spread more rapidly and extensively in Japan after the virus reached Tokyo, one of the world’s most populous metropolitan areas, with 35 million people. Two high school students were confirmed as the first two swine flu ...Read More
THE five Welsh patients with a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu have increased the need for those at risk to be vaccinated, health officials have said. Over the weekend, three of the five remained in Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales. The ...Read More
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Although federal health officials decline to use the word "peaked," the current wave of swine flu appears to have done so in the United States. Flu activity is coming down in all regions of the country, the Centers for Disease Control ...Read More
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
