Influenza News

Americans who are frustrated with shortages of swine flu vaccine place slightly more blame on drug companies than the federal government, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll showed Monday.

Health officials in North Carolina say two pregnant women were among five people who died of pandemic H1N1 flu or similar symptoms in one week.

Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer requested that the Federal Trade Commission act swiftly and aggressively to stop companies behind the wave of phony products claiming to cure and inoculate consumers against H1N1 being sold online.

The Ohio Department of Health submitted an order for 434,800 doses of H1N1 flu vaccine to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday afternoon.

As delivery of H1N1 vaccine to the provinces ramps up this week after an unfortunate slowdown, some public health officials are warning that Canadians shouldn't decide they can do without vaccine just because they've made it this far without a shot.

State health officials say Maine is facing two big problems when it comes to the h1n1 flu virus: it is widespread and there isn't enough vaccine yet.

Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective equipment by healthcare workers in treating suspected or confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza.

Health officials in Newfoundland and Labrador have confirmed the province's third death linked to the H1N1 virus.

OTTAWA a ' With H1N1 now accounting for virtually all the flu being diagnosed in Canada, critics say Canada was wrong not to have halted production of the regular seasonal flu shots and switched production to H1N1 vaccine sooner.

Officials at Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics will soon use computers in a national effort to more closely track the flu pandemic.

Last spring thousands of travelers canceled trips to Mexico after a swine flu outbreak there emptied beaches and resorts.

El Paso County health officials say the swine flu vaccine is now available and thousands are expected to get immunized next week.

Influenza will be listed as a complicating factor in the death Thursday of a Buffalo Grove boy who had what Lake County Coroner Dr.

Today's Question: "Is it safe to buy products over the Internet that could prevent or combat H1N1?" "There are only three products authorized by Health Canada that should be used against the H1N1 flu virus: the H1N1 vaccine Arepanrix, and the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza .

Gov. Jim Doyle says he has not gotten vaccinated for swine flu and probably won't. Doyle said he hasn't gotten it because he's not in the target group of high-risk people health officials are urging to be vaccinated.

Several people walked away from an H1N1 flu clinic in Manchester Thursday because they didn't want toreceivethe swine flu vaccine via nasal spray, stateHealth CommissionerDr.

Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island -- prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.

More than 199 countries and overseas territories have reported lab-confirmed cases of A influenza as of November 1, resulting in more than 6000 deaths, according to figures released Friday by the World Health Organization .

The Iowa Department of Public Health Friday reported three additional H1N1-related deaths in Iowa.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that pigs in a commercial herd in Indiana have tested positive for swine flu, making it the first time the virus has been found in such hogs.Photo by EPA/BGNES Household pets have become infected with the H1N1 flu, but the pandemic virus does not yet spread quickly among animals, the World Health ...