UN health agency gives up on counting swine flu

The World Health Organization says it will stop counting individual cases of swine flu.
Tracking individual swine flu cases is too overwhelming for countries where the virus is spreading widely, the agency says in a statement. WHO will no longer issue global totals of swine flu cases, although it will continue …

Swine flu strikes 10 at Minn. camp

Seven children and three adults at a summer camp in Minnesota for kids with muscular dystrophy contracted swine flu this month, contributing to the decision by the national Muscular Dystrophy Association to cancel dozens of its remaining summer camps across the country.
The national MDA also reported swine flu cases at …

UK swine flu cases pass 900 mark

The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the UK has reached 909, Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said.
In a statement to the Commons, Mr Burnham said 28 people had been admitted to hospital and that most of those had made a full recovery.
He said: “We recognised from the …