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WINNIPEG, Canada — Winnipeg paramedics who transported northern Manitoba patients suspected of having swine flu might have contracted the H1N1 influenza A virus that causes ...
By Mike Stobbe Associated PressATLANTA — Scientists have identified a lethal new virus in Africa that causes bleeding like the dreaded Ebola virus.The so-called ...
The Associated PressGENEVA — The World Health Organization raised its global tally of swine flu infections to 15,510 Friday, an increase of more than 2,000 cases in two ...
By Verena Dobnik Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — The world's swine flu death toll reached 100 as two more New Yorkers died while infected with a virus that has sickened ...
Children who don't get the shots are 23 times more likely to get the disease than vaccinated kids, a study suggests ...
By Mike Stark The Associated PressSALT LAKE CITY — Utah officials reported the state's first death associated with swine flu and Arizona recorded that state's third victim, ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The husband of the first American with swine flu to die is denying media reports that she had a pre-existing medical condition.Steven Trunnell told ...
A New York school assistant principal's death was linked to swine flu; cases in Japan surged to more than 120 ...
The Associated PressCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Texas health officials have say a 33-year-old Corpus Christi man died earlier this month of swine flu.Corpus Christi-Nueces County ...
Frieden was New York City's health commissioner for the past seven years; inherits looming swine flu decisions ...
By Amanda Lee Myers The Associated PressPHOENIX — A woman in Arizona suffering from a lung condition has apparently become the fourth person with swine flu in the nation to ...
No one knows whether swine flu (H1N1) will be the next disaster. But medical experts certainly believe that a pandemic flu is the major worldwide health concern for the next ...
By Alison Young The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionATLANTA, Ga. — In the coming weeks, as hot and humid summer weather settles in, cases of swine flu are expected to slow ...
By Gary Carmack The Pulaski County DailyReaders will probably surmise (correctly) from the title that this article is due to the recent event at the Pulaski County Jail. I thought ...
In Mexico, new figures showed that almost half of the 42 confirmed swine flu deaths were of people 29 and younger ...
Officials say they can quickly produce a vaccine after the genetic characteristics of swine flu were quickly identified ...
By Marissa Calligeros The Brisbane TimesQUEENSLAND, Australia — Queensland paramedics have been advised to wear full bio-hazard gear when treating patients with flu-like ...
By Noam N. Levey The Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON — On Long Island, N.Y., hospitals are scrambling to bring extra workers in to handle a 50% surge in visitors to emergency ...
By Margie Mason The Associated Press via The Virginian-PilotMEXICO CITY — Now that the swine flu virus has passed from a farm worker to pigs, could it jump back to people? ...
By Faye Flam The Philadelphia InquirerWASHINGTON — Within days of recognizing that a flu virus might be killing healthy young people in Mexico, scientists were able to ...