About 600 schools have shut their doors already for a period of time this flu season due to an outbreak of the H1N1 virus. With the trend expected to continue, school closings will almost certainly ...

One of the biggest health concerns each winter is flu season. And the Centers for Disease Control says the flu is widespread in four southern states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In some ...

While there were 18,500 laboratory-confirmed deaths due to the H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009, new estimates from an international group of researchers indicate more than half a million people ...

May 1, 2009 — Seasonal influenza vaccine is likely to have no effect on the swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) strain, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today, and a new vaccine will take about 4 ...

Health Minister Budi Gunadi confirmed a recent uptick in influenza cases across Indonesia but said the increase is part of a ...

Pre-monsoon and monsoon is the time when we become ill very often because of several deadly viruses. In India, we have recently witnessed a death of a 13-year-old boy from Kerala due to the H1N1 virus ...

Editor's Note: This article will be updated frequently, so check back often for new information. On September 30, 2009, updates were added on vaccine supply and vaccine response in children. On ...

Profits from the H1N1 flu virus are nothing to sneeze at. Oct. 14, 2009— -- Americans are still debating whether to roll up their sleeves for a swine flu shot, but companies have already figured ...

BENGALURU: Schools in Bengaluru are turning into hotspots for influenza transmission, as doctors report a steady rise in H1N1 ...

In a report in the August 5 PLoS Pathogens, an international team of scientists shows that the recent pandemic-causing H1N1 flu virus used a new biochemical trick to spread efficiently in humans. The ...

Scared about catching the H1N1 flu? Looking for protection? Have I got just the thing for you: a shampoo that can safeguard users from H1N1 infection. Or how about a dietary supplement — specially ...

Eleven years ago, the H1N1 or “swine flu” pandemic tore through the US, hitting communities of color especially hard. Compared with white patients, nonwhite patients got sicker faster, recovered more ...