SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 28 (UPI) -- Bulgaria's health minister says his country has no facility to identify swine flu virus and will have to ask a foreign lab to test a suspected patient's sample.
WASHINGTON, April 28 (UPI) -- U.S. President Obama asked Congress Tuesday to include $1.5 billion in the 2009 supplemental budget to respond to a potential swine flu outbreak.
SMITHFIELD, Va., April 28 (UPI) -- U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. says it has not found any signs that a swine flu outbreak is connected to its two Mexican plants.
HOUSTON, April 28 (UPI) -- Six cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Texas with at least another 27 cases awaiting confirmation, state health investigators said.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 28 (UPI) -- A Purdue University veterinarian says flu viruses are named for the first animal in which they are found; the current swine flu was discovered in pigs in 1930.
WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) -- Mexican officials did not warn U.S. officials about the swine flu breakout before President Barack Obama's visit in early April, the White House said.
NEW YORK, April 27 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices fell on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday as commodities were undermined by an outbreak of the swine flu.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 27 (UPI) -- With swine flu being reported in the United States, one might wonder whether weather has any part in spreading the flu -- and the answer is maybe
LOS ANGELES, April 27 (UPI) -- Overblown fears of a U.S. swine flu pandemic in 1976 resulted in an enduring public backlash against mass vaccinations, historians say.
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is clear of any swine flu symptoms after making a trip to Mexico this month, officials say.
