Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

* WHO, governments accused of bending to drugs companies * WHO to hold and publish independent review of H1N1 * Poor countries lack access to H1N1 antivirals, vaccines By Jonathan Lynn GENEVA, Jan 12 ...

The World Health Organization meets next Tuesday to decide if the H1N1 flu pandemic has officially peaked. Cases of pandemic flu have been decreasing. However, a third wave of the flu had been ...

So sayeth the World Health Organization (WHO)—and they should know, since they were the ones who declared a full, phase six-level pandemic a little more than a year ago. Now it’s done—this morning WHO ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Researchers in China have identified a new strain of swine flu that has “pandemic potential.” It has been more than a decade since the swine flu, known as the virus H1N1, last caused a ...

A top CDC official says concern over the outbreaks has grown since Thursday. April 24, 2009— -- A top federal health official said the government's concern over the swine flu outbreaks in the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the pandemic warning level from phase 5 to 6, officially declaring the H1N1 influenza as a pandemic. WHO has reported that 74 countries have 27,737 ...

Swine flu, scientifically known as the H1N1 virus, is making headlines again as cases surge in various parts of the country, particularly in the national capital. With symptoms resembling those of ...

World Health Organization (WHO) officials declared a pandemic of H1N1 influenza on Thursday, two months after the first cases of the new flu virus were reported in Mexico. It is the first flu pandemic ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu that can infect humans and has the potential to cause a future pandemic, according to a study released on Monday, though scientists have ...

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