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 ...

A new analysis suggests H1N1 deaths 15 times higher than lab tests counted. June 25, 2012— -- The swine flu virus, H1N1, may have killed 15 times the number of people counted by the World Health ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

* WHO chief Chan says will take 6-12 months to conquer H1N1 * World not ready to combat H5N1 bird flu pandemic, she says (Recasts after news conference with fresh quotes) By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, ...

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 ...

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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