Did government health officials “cry swine” when they sounded the alarm on what looked like a threatening new flu?
The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating global epidemic was just fearmongering hype. But that’s not how public health officials see it, calling …

Bird flu kills more than 60 percent of its human victims, but doesn’t easily pass from person to person. Swine flu can be spread with a sneeze or handshake, but kills only a small fraction of the people it infects.
So what happens if they mix?
This is the scenario that has …

President Obama made an impromptu appearance at the Univision Spanish-Language Town Hall meeting today on the H1N1 virus.
“I want to ensure everybody that we’re seeing that the virus may not have been as virulent as we at first feared, but we’re not out of the woods yet,” The president said. …

City officials released 286 guests and employees from a quarantined hotel Friday evening, ending an unusual and contentious seven-day lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of the A/H1N1 influenza virus.
The guests spilled out of the hotel to a crush of reporters, officials and well-wishers. Some hid their faces from the …

The World Health Organization said Friday that 2,384 people in 24 countries now had confirmed cases of swine flu.
Only 46 people are known to have died of the virus, all but 2 of them in Mexico.
Scientists on Thursday described 11 cases of Americans who were infected before the current outbreak …

The 22-month-old child who died April 27 of the flu, also called H1N1, had neonatal myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease, said the report, which was written by a virus investigation team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. The …

Outbreaks of the new H1N1 swine flu continue to spread across the United States, with 896 confirmed cases and more to come, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday.
U.S. officials have said they expect the swine influenza virus to spread to all 50 states and to …

The World Health Organization said Thursday that up to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic. The agency said a pandemic typically lasts two years.
WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the number wasn’t a prediction, but that experience with flu …

1. Is the swine flu outbreak in the United States winding down?
Not yet. Health officials expect to see more cases.
However, there are two reasons to think the 2009 H1N1 outbreak will wind down in the coming weeks. First, cases of influenza tend to dwindle when the weather gets warmer. …

With most people breathing easier about H1N1 flu, the World Health Organisation finds itself in a bind about how to respond to the continuing spread of the virus whose effects have proved mainly mild.
The United Nations agency’s guidelines state that as soon as the virus starts spreading freely in two …