A potentially deadly new strain of the swine flu virus cropped up in more places in the United States and Mexico on Saturday, in what the World Health Organization called "a public health emergency of ...

Questions abound about how to best inoculate the world against swine flu as health officials plan for a campaign that could dwarf any previous flu vaccination effort. Among the issues to be resolved ...

HealthMap Outbreaks Near Me is among scores of iPhone apps, along with social networks, Wikipedia and flu-tracking sites, that give consumers new ways to share information, shape conversations and ...

Obama says outbreak could turn out to be just like annual winter flu outbreaks. May 1, 2009 — -- President Obama said today that while the United States is still preparing for the worst in the ...

A top CDC official says concern over the outbreaks has grown since Thursday. April 24, 2009— -- A top federal health official said the government's concern over the swine flu outbreaks in the ...

ATLANTA — The new swine-flu virus lacks the traits that made the 1918 pandemic strain so deadly, a U.S. health official said Friday. Scientists in Mexico studying the swine-flu virus have found that ...

In the coming weeks, we'll know whether the current swine flu scare is a real pandemic or (hopefully) something much smaller. Either way, we are guaranteed to become a population with a heightened ...

SEATTLE - At least five schools in Western Washington will be closed Friday, some as long as a week, because of the growing number of possible swine flu cases in the state, which has reached a total ...

Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can ...

Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

Last year’s flu season was the worst California had seen in years — and state health officials warn this year could ...

So sayeth the World Health Organization (WHO)—and they should know, since they were the ones who declared a full, phase six-level pandemic a little more than a year ago. Now it’s done—this morning WHO ...