Influenza News

The World Health Organisation still expects the swine flu pandemic to subside in the northern hemisphere over the summer, despite its persistence in the likes of the United States and Britain.

Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August.

Members of President Obama's cabinet will hold a H1N1 Flu Preparedness Summit next week to prepare for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of H1N1 flu.

Schematic presentation and a photograph of transmission cages. The ferrets are housed in clear Perspex transmission cages, in which each inoculated animal was housed individually with a naive ferret.

Scientists have uncovered some intriguing clues about why the new swine flu frequently brings on gastrointestinal distress and vomiting, symptoms not usually associated with seasonal flu.

The health ministry said Thursday it has detected a genetic mutation of the new H1N1 strain of influenza A that develops resistance to Tamiflu, marking the first case of the new influenza in Japan that did not respond to the anti-flu drug.

A southwestern Ohio man died from the H1N1 influenza virus, the Ohio Department of Health confirmed Thursday.

The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

Thu, Jul 2, 2009 Britain faces a projected 100,000 new swine flu cases a day by the end of August and must revamp its flu strategy, the nation's health minister said Thursday.

A 33-year-old Clark County man infected with the swine flu virus died Sunday, Southern Nevada health officials said.

Gov. Chris Gregoire has approved $700,000 in emergency spending to buy more antiviral medicine for the next flu season.

TWICE as many children will die of swine flu in the next 12 months compared to the number of deaths from regular influenza, a leading disease expert said.

Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding said Wednesday that it has initiated a program to provide its influenza treatment Tamiflu to developing economies.

Argentina's health minister has resigned despite the growing swine flu epidemic, reportedly after failing to persuade the government to declare a health emergency.

The current H1N1 swine flu strain has genetic roots in an illness that sickened pigs at the 1918 Cedar Rapids Swine Show in Iowa, report infectious disease experts at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in the New England Journal of Medicine .

Authorities in Argentina's capital and Buenos Aires province declared health emergencies and extended school vacations Tuesday as the nation's swine flu death toll surged to 35.

Vaccine-maker Vical may have come up with a treatment for swine flu. Vical said Tuesday its vaccine for the H1N1 flu virus showed positive immune response in mice and rabbits.

An 84-year-old man from Boston is the second death linked to H1NI influenza in Massachusetts, the Boston Public Health Commission and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Monday.

Canada and the United States may go separate ways when deciding whether powerful boosting compounds called adjuvants should be added to swine flu vaccines, experts suggest.

Vaccine developer Novavax Inc. has signed a deal with Spain's health ministry and a specialty drugmaker there to license its genetically engineered technology to produce pandemic and seasonal flu vaccines and build that country's first vaccine-making plant.