Public health officials have been warning for some time that nothing about the flu is predictable. But here’s something that is: When it comes to a new strain of the flu like H1N1, which has already ...

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 ...

World Health Organization (WHO) officials declared a pandemic of H1N1 influenza on Thursday, two months after the first cases of the new flu virus were reported in Mexico. It is the first flu pandemic ...

Swine flu, scientifically known as the H1N1 virus, is making headlines again as cases surge in various parts of the country, ...

An updated safety report was released by Dr. Bruce Gellin, Director of the National Vaccine Program Office. The report indicates that the government has a "beefed-up" database on safety that shows no ...

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 ...

At least two human cases of the new so-called "dual mutant" strains of H1N1 influenza have been detected in U.S. patients, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday, with genetic ...

Pre-existing immunity against seasonal H1N1 flu might help explain why most reported human cases of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. have not resulted in lethal outcomes, suggests a new study by University ...

A new analysis suggests H1N1 deaths 15 times higher than lab tests counted. June 25, 2012— -- The swine flu virus, H1N1, may have killed 15 times the number of people counted by the World Health ...

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