Epidemic News

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 World Health Organization said Friday 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.

Vaccine makers praised the U.S. response to the swine flu pandemic on Wednesday but said regulatory delays and public suspicion have held up innovative ways to speed and stretch the U.S. influenza vaccine supply.

Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police.

The World Health Organization on Thursday reemphasized the safety of A/H1N1 flu vaccine, saying a small number of deaths that occurred after vaccination were actually not caused by the vaccine itself.

Alberta's auditor general will examine the province's swine flu vaccination program over the next few months to see if the plan was properly implemented and clearly communicated.

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

Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published today in PLoS ONE.

Despite initially declaring success, Beijing now acknowledges its swine flu outbreak is much larger than official numbers show.

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

The death of a 4-month-old girl in San Diego County has been linked to the swine flu pandemic, health officials announced Wednesday.

Minnesota health officials are reporting five new deaths from swine Flu as the pandemic wanes.

Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:59am EST - A girl wearing a face mask takes a photograph along Whitehall in London, July 30, 2009.

If current obesity trends continue, more than 40 percent of adults in the United states will be obese and spending on the epidemic will quadruple to $344 billion by 2018, according to a new study released Tuesday.

Runny nose, fever, cough, even pneumonia -- the symptoms sound like swine flu but children hospitalized at one U.S. hospital in fact had a rhinovirus, better known as a common cold virus, doctors said on Tuesday.

'Sisters in Spirit Vigil' marched through downtown Regina for missing First Nations women on Sunday as part of the third annual Aboriginal HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Conference.

Nov. 16, 2009 -- As the number of deaths related to the pandemic H1N1 virus, commonly known as "swine flu," continues to rise, researchers have been scrambling to decipher its inner workings and explain why the incidence is lower than expected in older adults.

Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections.

People who have had repeated flu infections -- or repeated flu vaccines -- may have some protection against the new pandemic swine influenza, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

The researchers linked many powerful computer systems together to analyze enormous amounts of genetic data collected from all publicly available isolated strains of the H5N1 virus -- the cause of avian flu.