AP - If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn’t over, it certainly looks as if it’s on its last legs. While federal health officials are not ready to declare the threat has passed and the outbreak has run its course, they did report Friday that for the fourth week in a row, no states had [...]
AP - Swine flu infections continue to drop and only one state — Alabama — was reporting widespread cases last week.[Read more...]
AP - How contagious is swine flu? Less than the novel viruses that have caused big world outbreaks in the past, new research suggests.[Read more...]
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.[Read more...]
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.[Read more...]
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.[Read more...]
AP - Swine flu infections continue to wane, just as vaccine is becoming plentiful enough that some communities are allowing everyone to get it, not just those in priority groups.[Read more...]
AP - Health officials say swine flu infections continue to wane, with only half the states reporting widespread cases.[Read more...]
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By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - Tamiflu resistance in some H1N1 patients with badly weakened immune systems does not seem to reflect a major change in the virus’ susceptibility to the frontline drug, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. Nine people in Britain and the United States developed a Tamiflu-resistant form of swine flu [...]
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