Two additional deaths attributed to swine flu were reported over the weekend, with both victims suffering from other health conditions.
China also reported its first suspected case of the flu, according to The Associated Press. On Sunday, the World Health Organization reported that there were 4,379 cases of the A (H1N1) …

The number of swine flu-related deaths outside of Mexico rose after the U.S. reported its third fatality and Costa Rica its first, but both men also suffered from complicating illnesses, health officials said.
In Mexico, the center of the outbreak where 48 people with swine flu have died, most of the …

* 4,379 people infected with H1N1 flu in 29 countries
* Big increase in confirmed cases in United States
* First death reported in Costa Rica

There have been few more dramatic moments at the World Health Organization than the late-night gathering on April 29 when Dr. Margaret Chan, its powerful director general, declared that the human race was in peril.
“After all, it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic,” Dr. …

The number of confirmed H1N1 influenza cases climbed to 2,254 in 44 states and Washington, D.C., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.
Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for science and program at the CDC, said there are a total of about 3,000 confirmed and “probable” influenza cases in …

Japan confirmed its first cases of swine flu Saturday in three people who recently returned from Canada, even as the disease’s spread appeared to slow in the rest of the world.
Health and Welfare Minister Yoichi Masuzoe said the three Japanese were quarantined upon arrival in Tokyo after testing positive in …

H1N1 flu has infected 3,440 people in 29 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday.
In its latest tally, which tends to lag national reports but is considered more secure, the U.N. agency said 45 people in Mexico have died from the new flu strain that is a genetic …

Short of war, Mexico has endured about the worst calamity that can befall a country’s tourism industry over the last few weeks. A few people who had traveled here came down with what looked, initially, like a potentially highly contagious flu. Within days, pictures of civilians clad in surgical masks, …

Mexicans will do almost anything to avoid a public hospital emergency room, where ailing patients may languish for hours slumped on cracked linoleum floors that smell of sweat, sickness and pine-scented disinfectant.
Many don’t see doctors at all, heading instead to the clerk at the corner pharmacy for advice on coping …

Doctors in Mexico are beginning to get a sense of how the new H1N1 influenza behaves, and one disturbing trend there is that it can cause severe illness in a small number of healthy young people, unlike regular seasonal flu, which is mainly dangerous to the very young, the very …