 | | | | Infectious Diseases Headlines | | | MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) -- More than 300 people have been diagnosed with the mumps in suburban New York as the nation's largest outbreak of the disease in years spreads.
GENEVA (Canadian Press) -- Aid groups say they are launching an emergency vaccination campaign for 140,000 people in Haiti to protect them against measles and other diseases.
(Associated Press) -- High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality -- including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal -- raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won't go so far as to say that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no states had widespread flu activity.
Serena Koenig, M.D., has been providing medical care to the people of Haiti since 2001. After 10 days there after the earthquake, Dr. Koenig says the country's future medical needs will be enormous.
LONDON (AP) -- A major British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization has rejected as "irresponsible" allegations that swine flu is a fake pandemic.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A new government estimate says swine flu has sickened about 55 million Americans and killed about 11,160.
ATLANTA (AP) -- About 1 in 5 Americans have been vaccinated against swine flu, according to the government's first detailed estimates of vaccination rates against the new pandemic.
LONDON (AP) -- A UNICEF program that spent $27 million to decrease child deaths from disease in West Africa has failed, according to a new study that found a higher survival rate in some regions that weren't included in the program.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First there was too little swine flu vaccine. Now could there be way too much?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS virus does, and most don't know it.
LONDON (AP) -- Contaminated heroin may have caused an anthrax outbreak among drug addicts in Scotland, killing six people and infecting 12 in total, health officials said Thursday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Looks like doctors aren't the only ones who should scrub before surgery. Bathing patients with an antiseptic and squirting medicated ointment up their noses dramatically cut the rate of dangerous staph infections afterward, researchers found.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say swine flu was widespread in only four states last week, indicating the fall wave of illness is still declining.
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Aker University Hospital is a dingy place to heal. The floors are streaked and scratched. A light layer of dust coats the blood pressure monitors. A faint stench of urine and bleach wafts from a pile of soiled bedsheets dropped in a corner.
(Associated Press) -- How contagious is swine flu? Less than the novel viruses that have caused big world outbreaks in the past, new research suggests.
(The New York Times News Service) -- When swine flu emerged last spring, disease trackers warned that children and adults with underlying medical conditions would be especially susceptible to the ravages of the virus.
FRANKENSTEIN, Mo. (AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.
GENEVA (Canadian Press) -- It is too early to declare that the swine flu pandemic has peaked worldwide and many more people could become sick with the virus this winter, the head of the World Health Organization said in an interview published Tuesday.
LANTANA, Fla. (AP) -- It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Swine flu is not only dangerous to pregnant women, but it's a threat to new mothers too, the first study to document this risk shows. An analysis of pregnant women and new mothers who were hospitalized with swine flu in California found that those who had a baby in the previous two weeks were at higher risk of severe flu complications.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- More hugs, fewer bugs. Holiday visits have become safer for grandparents thanks to a childhood vaccine that has dramatically curbed infections spread by kids, a new study finds.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drugmaker MedImmune is recalling nearly 5 million doses of swine flu vaccine because the nasal spray appears to lose strength over time, federal health officials announced Tuesday.
(Associated Press) -- A new Harvard poll finds that concern about swine flu has waned along with the number of new cases being reported.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A dog in suburban New York is the first in the nation confirmed to be carrying the same strain of swine flu that is infecting humans, experts said Tuesday.
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Procter & Gamble Co. is recalling 700,000 packs of Vicks DayQuil capsules because they are not childproof.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Medical officials say an extremely rare organism has been passed from an organ donor to at least one recipient in what is thought to be the first such transfer of the amoeba.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A flu shot for the holidays?
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization plans to start shipping swine flu vaccine to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the next few weeks, flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- After weeks of shortages, swine flu vaccine is plentiful enough that nearly half the states now say everyone can get it, not just people in high-risk groups.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Canadians should avoid becoming complacent about the H1N1 flu virus, which is unpredictable and could stage a big comeback in the new year, says Canada's chief public health officer.
LONDON (AP) -- Malaria cases appear to have been slashed by half in more than a third of countries battling the disease following a renewed push by the United Nations to eradicate it, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- After peaking in October, the number of swine flu cases in Los Angeles County has plummeted, and school health officials hope Christmas break will nearly halt the spread of the disease.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Florida is no longer seeing widespread cases of H1N1 flu, a strong sign that the virus has peaked in the state. But health officials stressed that the public needs to continue taking steps to prevent its spread.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say American Indians and Alaska Natives have died from swine flu at a rate four times greater than other Americans.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by federal health officials on Thursday.
BEIJING (AP) -- China's Health Ministry warned Friday that the swine flu outbreak in the country could peak over the next several months, especially as hundreds of millions of people return home for the traditional Chinese New Year.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials say winter flu is just starting to show up in the U.S. while swine flu infections continue to wane.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Hoping to prevent the spread of the swine flu virus, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell appeared at the Marin County Office of Education Wednesday to detail state plans for distribution of $2.5 million in masks and gloves in California schools.
LONDON (AP) -- Swine flu is far less dangerous than originally feared, British officials said Thursday -- about 100 times less lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A handful of pets have been sickened with swine flu in recent weeks, but here are doctors' orders: Wash your hands and don't panic.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Pet frogs are being blamed for a national salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 48 people.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- For more than four months, Juan Xique has been struggling to get his life back in order after becoming homeless. He splits his time between staying with a friend in Cicero and hanging out in Humboldt Park while trying to get back disability benefits to support himself.
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS.
(USA TODAY) -- A team of researchers from the USA and Britain on Monday dramatically scaled back estimates of the severity of the swine flu epidemic.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Almost everyone in the Augusta area can now get the vaccine against the novel influenza A H1N1 virus, public health officials announced Monday.
LONDON (AP) -- The European Medicines Agency warns that young children given GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu shot may get a fever after their second dose.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials are warning the public about fake e-mails inviting people to sign up for swine flu vaccine registrations.
(The New York Times News Service) -- The swine flu is receding in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationwide, and the worst of the pandemic may be over, but public health experts say it's too early for people to let their guard down.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Details of who H1N1 is sending to hospitals and who it is killing show how different this flu virus is from seasonal influenza, the head of the Public Health of Canada said Wednesday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Health officials are warning people of a scam involving e-mail requests for personal information as part of a bogus H1N1 flu vaccine registry.
(Associated Press) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Swine flu infections seem to be dropping, but the number of children who died with the illness rose by about 30, according to a government report released Monday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- With swine flu ebbing and immunizations still maddeningly hard to find, one might be tempted to ask: Why bother to even look for vaccine?
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Faced with a continuing and unpredictable shortage of vaccine against the seasonal flu -- remember that? -- New Jersey yesterday suspended enforcement of its first-in-the-nation mandate that children be immunized before enrolling in a licensed preschool or child-care facility.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The only concern Sheryl Granger had when traveling with her 6-year-old son this week was the airplane.
BEIJING (AP) -- China has detected eight cases of swine flu mutation, a health official said Wednesday, amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest.
ATLANTA (The New York Times News Service) -- Families and friends gathering this Thanksgiving will share lots of love, good food and maybe a little swine flu.
LONDON (AP) -- Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170,000 doses of swine flu vaccine while authorities investigate reports of allergic reactions among recipients, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.
LONDON (AP) -- Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu -- most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms -- have failed to contain the disease.
HAVANA (AP) -- China's health minister said Wednesday his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of inhabitants of the world's most populous country by year's end.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The latest target in the search for a vaccine against Lyme disease? Tick spit.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Colorado has revoked waivers from as many as 72 public drinking-water systems and is now requiring chlorine treatment of most public supplies as part of the response to a salmonella-poisoning epidemic that ravaged Alamosa last year.
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- Federal health experts say an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine is safe and effective for infants and toddlers, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials on Monday questioned whether to approve an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine for children, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- For months, Rachel Aguayo, who is pregnant with her first child, has been bombarded with messages urging her to be among the first in line for the H1N1 flu vaccine.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. health officials say the largest U.S. outbreak of mumps in three years is occurring in New York and New Jersey.
GENEVA (AP) -- Organizers of big sporting and cultural events should take steps to prevent the spread of swine flu, especially if local health systems aren't prepared to handle mass gatherings, the World Health Organization said Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Estimates of deaths caused by the swine flu have grown to nearly 4,000 since April, roughly quadrupling previous estimates. But that doesn't mean swine flu suddenly has worsened.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Production of the H1N1 vaccine is on the rise and manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis will meet its goal of 75 million doses by the end of the year. While that may not satisfy critics who wanted more vaccine sooner, it will meet the company's commitment, the company's chief executive officer said Wednesday during a press briefing at the vaccine maker's Monroe County campus, Sanofi-Pasteur.
(The New York Times News Service) -- The idea of mandatory paid sick leave has been kicking around Congress for years. But as more people get sick with H1N1 flu virus, it could become a reality.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization says doctors shouldn't wait for lab confirmation before giving anti-viral drugs to pregnant women and other at-risk groups with suspected swine flu.
GENEVA (AP) -- Countries can choose from stronger measures like school closures that may slow the spread of swine flu in the beginning, but the disease will continue to spread anyway, a World Health Organization spokesman said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a new national poll.
LONDON (AP) -- In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don't really need it.
(USA TODAY) -- Efforts to require flu shots for health care workers in order to protect vulnerable patients are being abandoned by some major health systems because of legal challenges and vaccine shortages.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The Food and Drug Administration is investigating companies nationwide that are advertising and selling unauthorized H1N1 products.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A medical aid group says funding for AIDS is threatened, and that could set back "dramatic" progress in decreasing HIV illness and death.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some of New York City's largest employers -- including Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and big universities -- have started receiving doses of the much-in-demand swine flu vaccine for their at-risk employees.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A 13-year-old Iowa cat has been infected with swine flu, veterinary and federal officials said Wednesday in what is believed to be the first case of the H1N1 virus in a feline in the United States.
OAKLAND (USA Today) -- Tiffany Lee, 16, is the worst-case swine flu scenario every doctor fears. On July 7, she started to cough and feel dizzy. "I thought it was allergies," she says from her hospital bed.
SIAYA, Kenya (AP) -- A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections and birth defects. Reassuringly, the most-used antibiotics in early pregnancy - penicillins - appear to be the safest.
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Russia and Slovakia tightened their borders with Ukraine on Tuesday as the World Health Organization began investigating a suspected swine flu outbreak.
(USA Today) -- John Stevenson hasn't stopped patronizing the local gym, but after his workout, he is wiping down his machines with spray disinfectant and paper towels. Sales associate Janet Lininger is having customers swipe their own credit cards (she's relieved to have recently shifted from the intimate-apparel section to the far-less-cozy handbag department).
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A single dose of the swine flu vaccine works well for almost all pregnant women, but young children will still need two doses for best results, federal health officials said Monday.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Urging its citizens not to panic, Ukraine on Monday closed down all schools nationwide for a week to avoid the spread of swine flu and suggested that nightclubs, cinemas and food markets in the west also shut down.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Independent health advisers begin monitoring safety of the swine flu vaccine on Monday, an extra step the government promised in this year's unprecedented program to watch for possible side effects.
LONDON (AP) -- To fight pneumonia, the world's top killer of children, United Nations officials say they need $39 billion (euro26.35 billion) over the next six years.
(USA TODAY) -- Some time-honored traditions -- working sick, flying sick, going to school sick -- are in question as the nation seeks to fend off the spread of swine flu.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Halloween can be a scary night for children.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Newborns whose mothers got seasonal flu shots during pregnancy were less likely to be born premature, underweight, and in need of hospital care for respiratory illnesses, three new studies found.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It was bound to happen: Some people who aren't at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Heath officials say swine flu has caused at least 19 more children's deaths -- the largest one-week increase since the pandemic started in April.
GENEVA (AP) -- A single dose of swine flu vaccine is enough to immunize adults and children over 10 against the pandemic strain, the World Health Organization said Friday.
LONDON (AP) -- Dutch scientists ignited a controversy Friday by suggesting that children would be better off skipping the seasonal flu vaccine this year -- a proposal flatly rejected by other health experts.
(Associated Press) -- With Dad a world leader and Nobel Prize winner, Malia and Sasha Obama surely could have been first in line when vaccinations began for swine flu. They weren't, the White House says. But that hasn't stopped complaints that President Barack Obama's daughters got preferential treatment.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- H1N1 vaccinations are being offered at clinics throughout Sacramento County. Neighboring counties haven't released their schedules, which The Bee will publish as they become available.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials think that as many as 5.7 million Americans were infected with swine flu during the first few months of the pandemic.
CHICAGO (AP) -- The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day.
LONDON (AP) -- Swiss drug-maker Novartis AG says it will deliver about 30 million doses of swine flu vaccine to the United States by the end of November.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Mention swine flu to a young child, and odds are pretty good you'll get a blank stare.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some of the millions who travel to Saudi Arabia next month for the annual hajj will be greeted with face masks, hand sanitizer and fever checks as health officials strive to stem the spread of swine flu during the world's largest pilgrimage.
(Associated Press) -- Doctors may have a new treatment for swine flu that's already on pharmacy shelves -- cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With more than 23 million doses of swine flu vaccine now available, health officials are visiting vaccine plants to check for any more pending interruptions to what appears to be a slowly but steadily growing supply.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vaccinating more children might help slow the evolution of the constantly changing flu virus, government scientists reported Thursday.
BEIJING (AP) -- China will give swine flu vaccinations to thousands of Muslims about to make the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, state media said, as authorities reported the mainland's third death from the illness.
ATLANTA (AP) -- More than 22 million doses of swine flu vaccine are available now, and most Americans should soon find it easier to get their dose, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
BERLIN (AP) -- A debate over two different swine flu vaccines overshadowed Germany's launch of a public inoculation program against the pandemic on Monday.
TAMPA (The New York Times News Service) -- The University of South Florida is participating in two national studies to find out whether the H1N1 vaccine can protect children and pregnant women who have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from also contracting swine flu.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)-- State health officials are tracking the spread of swine flu through electronic prescription records, developing what they believe is a model that could help doctors more easily identify and respond to an outbreak of the illness.
ENCINO (The New York Times News Service) -- Hundreds of people came from as far away as San Diego Friday to stand in long lines for swine flu vaccine at the Balboa Sports Complex -- one of the first of 64 free clinics that will open over the next three weeks in Los Angeles County's largest ever vaccination campaign.
BERLIN (AP) -- A debate over two different swine flu vaccines overshadowed Germany's launch of a public inoculation program against the pandemic on Monday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Federal health officials say swine flu is more widespread now than it's ever been.
ATLANTA (AP) -- About 1 in 5 U.S. children had a flu-like illness earlier this month -- and most of those cases likely were swine flu, according to a new government health survey. About 7 percent of surveyed adults said they'd had a flu-like illness, the survey found.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The government's latest figures show swine flu is widespread across the country and increasing in almost every state. It's now caused at least 95 children's deaths since April.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Grappling with low supplies of swine flu vaccines, President Felipe Calderon persuaded drug makers this week to sell him 30 million doses, while 1,000 Mexicans lined up for an experimental vaccine they hope can speed up supplies.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York state health officials have suspended a ruling that would have forced health care workers across the state to get vaccinated against the swine flu by the end of November or risk losing their jobs, saying in a decision issued Thursday that they did so because the vaccine is in short supply.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government now hopes to have about 50 million doses of swine flu vaccine out by mid-November and 150 million in December.
SWIFTWATER, Pa. (AP) -- The federal government originally promised 120 million doses of swine flu vaccine by now. Only 13 million have come through.
(Associated Press) -- Federal officials have warned promoters of more than 140 products sold over the Internet about fraudulent claims that they can prevent, treat or diagnose swine flu.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Thousands of American kids are getting sick from the swine flu epidemic, which has hit months before the traditional flu season.
(USA TODAY) -- As health care workers around the country work frantically to accommodate the millions seeking protection against the H1N1 strain of influenza, they have to contend with a countertrend: significant numbers of Americans who don't plan to vaccinate themselves or their children.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The latest government information shows swine flu continues to be most dangerous to kids and younger adults and is largely bypassing the elderly.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Visiting a loved one in the hospital? Better check on new flu limits first. Hospitals around the country are turning away visiting children and tightening restrictions on adults, too, in hopes of limiting spread of swine flu in the hallways - although there's little science the limits work.
MIAMI (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- The most important statistic for the Heat, and, for that matter, the NBA this season will be 98.6.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two girls who swam with pet turtles in a backyard pool were among 107 people sickened in the largest salmonella outbreak blamed on turtles nationwide, researchers report.
ATLANTA (AP) -- It was six months ago that scientists discovered an ominous new flu virus, touching off fears of a catastrophic global outbreak that could cause people to drop dead in the streets. Doomsday, of course, never came to pass.
(Associated Press) -- Giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood vaccinations may backfire and make the shots a little less effective, surprising new research suggests.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The swine flu is causing an unprecedented amount of illness for so early in the fall -- and federal health officials said Friday that 11 more children have died in the past week.
(Associated Press) -- Test results of its swine flu vaccine suggest that children under 10 may need two shots to be fully protected, vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur said Wednesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The largest U.S. analysis of hospitalized adult swine flu patients has found almost half were healthy people who did not have asthma or any other chronic illnesses before they got sick.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Max Gomez was a bright-eyed 5-year-old happy to have just started kindergarten when he developed sniffles and a fever. His mother figured it was only a cold. Three days later, the Antioch, Tenn., boy was dead, apparently from swine flu. At least 76 American children have died from the new virus, and doctors are urging parents to watch for warning signs that the flu has become life-threatening.
Kuwait (McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Following the debate on whether academic season should be resumed due to the swine flu infection scare, attention has now shifted to the Hajj season. Many Hajj convoy owners are now claiming that the season has been hit by the scare.
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization hopes to begin shipping 60 million doses of swine flu vaccine to poor countries in November as part of an effort to protect their fragile health systems from the pandemic, it said Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top U.S. health official says the risks from not getting the swine flu vaccine are greater than any potential risks associated with the vaccine.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Rapidly worsening breathing problems in the sickest swine flu patients in Mexico and Canada present a scary worst-case scenario and could foreshadow what U.S. doctors face as winter flu season sets in, new reports suggest.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Health officials said Friday that 76 children have died of swine flu, including 16 new reports in the past week -- more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous in kids.
(Associated Press) -- One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That's a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said.
ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years.
OUANAMINTHE, Haiti (AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic to meet political leaders, health workers and malaria victims Wednesday in hopes of jump-starting efforts to eradicate the disease in the Caribbean.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The nation's third-largest drugstore chain is no longer making pregnant women show a prescription to get a flu shot.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The people who most want the swine flu vaccine are older people, who will be last in line, says a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The initial swine flu vaccine doses this week will be the nasal spray version, and arm injections will begin next week to help meet demand, health officials said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wondering if swine flu's bad enough to require a doctor's attention? An interactive Web site may help you decide, using the same type of triage calculations that doctors at Emory University use.
(USA TODAY) -- The first doses of swine flu vaccine arrived Monday as more than half the USA reported widespread flu cases.
GENEVA (AP) -- Vaccine is the best tool against swine flu despite reports of a few minor side effects from the initial campaign in China, the World Health Organization said Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- And we're off: Swine flu vaccinations begin this week, after months of preparations and promises. But don't start bugging your doctor about an appointment just yet.
(USA TODAY) -- Vaccine for the H1N1 flu will begin arriving in the nation's hospitals, clinics and schools as early as Tuesday, the start of an effort to protect Americans against a swine flu virus that emerged this past spring and quickly circled the globe.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Swine flu arrived at the Berger home a few weeks ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The long-awaited first vaccinations against swine flu -- the squirt-in-the-nose kind -- begin early next week in parts of the country, and states are urging people to be patient until more arrives.
(Associated Press) -- The largest U.S. supplier of seasonal flu vaccines said it is running behind on shipping those vaccines -- partly because of the crunch to produce millions of doses of the swine flu vaccine.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If a third of people wind up catching swine flu, 15 states could run out of hospital beds around the time the outbreak peaks, a new report warns Thursday.
DENVER (The New York Times News Service) -- Jennifer Bomgaars felt it like just another annoying shot in the arm. But her flu vaccine at the Take Care retail clinic in suburban Denver hit some vital nerves in the much-debated American health system.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Twenty-five cities and states have ordered swine flu vaccine, and the first doses should be administered Tuesday, officials said Thursday.
LONDON (AP) -- United Nations health officials estimate about 4 million people who need AIDS drugs worldwide are now getting them, according to a report issued Wednesday.
(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- When the first shipments of swine flu vaccine begin arriving in coming weeks, federal officials want only people on priority lists to line up for the first 45 million doses, but there won't be "vaccine police" enforcing it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's hard for pregnant women to escape the message: You're at extra risk from swine flu -- it could trigger premature labor, hospitalize you for weeks, even kill you -- so be among the first in line for vaccine next month. But only about one in seven pregnant women gets a flu shot each winter.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you're one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?
LONDON (AP) - The European Union's drug regulator recommended Friday that two swine flu vaccines be licensed in the 27-nation bloc to ensure their availability before the start of the normal flu season.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hate to get flu shots? A new comparison of flu vaccines gives adults a good reason to roll up their sleeves and get a jab in the arm instead of a squirt in the nose.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The maker of Tamiflu on Wednesday said there's a shortage of the children's version of the drug -- the first-line treatment for swine flu and seasonal flu.
BANGKOK (AP) -- For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.
ATLANTA (AP) -- It's lurking in that awesome party just off the quad, hiding in the shot glasses passed from person to person and in the make-out sessions in the hallway.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Some pharmacists are seeing a shortage of the children's version of the flu drug Tamiflu.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Studies of the new swine flu vaccine show children 10 and older will need just one shot for protection -- but younger kids almost certainly will need two.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The first doses of swine flu vaccine may all be the nasal spray version, government health officials said Friday.
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