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About 4,000 Americans - rather than about 1,200 - have died of swine flu since the disease emerged in April, according to new figures being calculated by epidemiologists for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

In an effort to prevent the spread of swine flu, hospitals in New Jersey are being urged to suspend visiting privileges for persons younger than 18 years old.

Difficulties producing H1N1 vaccine raises concerns about the time-honored production method.

Going to school every day can be hazardous to your health - and the health of others.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, has allocated a total of 1,351,400 doses of H1N1 vaccine to Pennsylvania to date, the state Department of Health announced today.

For millions of Americans the rule is simple: If you don't come to work, you don't get paid.

Poor cleaning of restrooms aboard cruise ships raises the risk of norovirus-caused gastrointestinal illness outbreaks, a new study finds.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported to CBS News that, based on the data available to it, 104 people died from the H1N1 virus for the week ending October 31.

Monday, November 09, 2009 at 12:39 p.m. Read more: State , Health , H1n1 , Vaccine , Nasal , Shots , Local Health Department , Hospital , Center Of Disease Control And Prevention , Ohio Department Of Health COLUMBUS- Local health departments and hospitals in all 88 Ohio counties will receive more than 400,000 doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine starting ...

As the death rate of the H1N1 virus surpassed 1,000 people in the United States, Chinese medicine practitioners, Ayurvedic healers, and Latino yerberas faced a dilemma: whether to tell their clients to get the vaccine -- which is recommended by the CDC -- or to prescribe alternative treatments.

It's becoming rare to sit through an entire television program without seeing at least one commercial advertisement that's trying to convince you to get a prescription for some new medicine.

Do your part to stop the spread of swine flu: Get vaccinated. It was a rallying cry, a call to arms of sort from federal health officials after the H1N1 virus appeared last spring and began circling the globe.

On a recent flight from San Francisco, California, to Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Julie Gerberding was thrilled to get bumped up to first class.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims circle the sacred Kaaba stone at Mecca's Grand Mosque in December 2008.

The Coastal Health District, which includes Bryan, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, and McIntosh Counties, has received 1,300 doses of the injectable form of the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine.

NexBio Inc., in collaboration with scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , St.

CWmike writes "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an effort this week to better and more easily track for H1N1, or Swine Flu, and other seasonal influenza activity throughout the U.S. The CDC said it is now tracking data on 14 million patients from physician practices and hospitals that is stored on a relational database ...

ABSENCE OF ALTERNATIVES: The six workers on an infected pig farm in Taitung have tested negative for the illness, raising questions about how the pigs caught swine flu STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA Saturday, Nov 07, 2009, Page 4 The Council of Agriculture rejected a claim yesterday that the influenza A virus recently detected among pigs in Taitung County ...

Sat Nov 7, 2009 6:28am EST - People practice coughing into their sleeves as a way to try to control the spread of the H1N1 swine flu virus, during a meeting for workers at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in Baltimore, September 3, 2009.

The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not ban anyone considered high risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year.