CAIRO (AP) – Another four students and a faculty member at the American University in Cairo have contracted swine flu, said Egypt’s health minister, bringing the total number of those infected at the school to seven.
The five cases were discovered when tests were carried out at a dormitory after two students from the U.S. were [...]
The number of confirmed swine flu cases in Kentucky has reached 88 and the state probably will see more, health officials said Tuesday.
Scott County has confirmed 12 cases, second only to Jefferson County, which has 45.
Fayette County has recorded six confirmed cases.
The numbers can be somewhat confusing, because they represent total cases recorded since early [...]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – An ocean liner docked in an Australian city on Saturday despite objections raised by port officials over a swine flu outbreak on board that cut short a Great Barrier Reef cruise.
Health officials screened 85 passengers who then disembarked from the Pacific Dawn in the Queensland state capital of Brisbane. The nearly [...]
What is H1N1 flu (swine flu)?
H1N1 is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. It was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. Other countries, including Mexico and Canada, have reported people sick with the virus. This virus is spreading from person-to-person, probably in much the same way that regular [...]
NEW YORK – A New York City woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city’s second victim and America’s 11th.
The World Health Organisation, as of Friday, had tallied more than 12,000 swine flu cases worldwide, with more than half of them in the United States. It counted at least 86 deaths, with [...]
Two adults in England have been diagnosed with swine flu, taking the total number of cases in the UK to 122.
The Health Protection Agency said one is from London and the other from the east, adding that the source of infection was still being investigated.
Of all the UK cases, more than half (66) are in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Genes included in the H1N1 swine flu has been circulating undetected for at least a decade, according to researchers who have sequenced the genomes of more than 50 samples of the virus.
Researchers led by Rebecca Garten of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied samples of the flu isolated in [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) – No one has identified ground zero in the swine flu epidemic. Just where or when the new strain of influenza first jumped from a pig and began infecting people is a scientific mystery
- one that a group of flu detectives is determined to solve.
Scientists are returning next week to La Gloria, [...]
Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and government officials:
-Deaths: Global total of 61 – 56 in Mexico; three in the U.S.; one in Canada and one in Costa Rica. One of those who died in the U.S. was a toddler from [...]
