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 ...

The WHO declared H1N1 a pandemic back in June, at a time when the outbreak was still early. This sent a wave of fear around the world even though an examination of the virus itself showed that it ...

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 ...

* 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, ...

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 ...

Swine flu, known as pandemic influenza or swine influenza, is an influenza virus that makes individuals ill. It is a ...

The recent deaths from H1N1 influenza of two Eastern Iowans in the prime of their life drives home the threat this influenza pandemic poses. Unlike the regular seasonal flu, which normally attacks the ...

A new study has identified an influenza virus circulating in pigs that shows multiple traits associated with pandemic potential. Known as H1N2, the virus belongs to a lineage of flu viruses that ...

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 ...