H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu News

If you are wondering why it so hard to find the swine flu vaccine in New Jersey, public health officials say blame the state's complicated system of local governments -- 115 health departments across 21 counties.

Anyone who wants to get the H1N1 vaccine in British Columbia can go to a local flu-shot clinic or doctor's office beginning Friday.

State health officials say they've allocated a total of 1.2 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine to Virginia sites in their overall campaign to vaccinate people against the so-called swine flu.

The uncertainty over weekly allotments of a limited supply of H1N1 vaccine has complicated efforts to organize immunization clinics and distribute it to hundreds of providers in North Dakota and South Dakota.

"Reporting so far reconfirms that the pandemic flu vaccine is as safe as the seasonal flu vaccine," says WHO vaccine expert Dr.

Healthy children aged under five are to be given the swine flu jab. Currently people in priority groups - including young children with asthma or diabetes - are being vaccinated.

A Fayette County infant dies from complications of the H1N1 virus.

Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu - most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms - have failed to contain the disease.

The UK could suffer a shortage of intensive care beds for children with swine flu, researchers have said.

State health officials are confirming 11 more deaths related to the swine flu in Wisconsin.

The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting two more H1N1 flu-related deaths.

Some pharmacies are charging three times what others are for a scarce liquid form of the H1N1 drug Tamiflu used by children, USA TODAY has found.

The Queen City is seeing a dramatic rise in H1N1 flu cases as health workers report more than 20,000 confirmed infections.

More than half of patients are turning down the swine flu vaccine, a snapshot survey has suggested.

Forget cookies and milk. Santa wants the swine flu vaccine. Many of the nation's Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine and not just because of those runny-nosed kids.

State health officials say all Oklahomans who want to reduce their risk of H1N1 infection are now eligible to receive H1N1 influenza vaccine.

Pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG said Tuesday a U.S. clinical study suggests that half a dose of its swine flu vaccine may be sufficient to protect people from the virus and could allow many more to be immunized with current supplies.

Last summer, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined who should receive the H1N1 vaccine when it became available -- including who should be given highest priority if there were limited doses.

Thousands of people have been affected by the H1N1 virus. Find out why one family says they never thought they would be one of those.

ABERDEEN, Wash. A 12-year-old boy is the first person in Grays Harbor County to die from swine flu.