WELLINGTON, New Zealand, April 29 (UPI) -- Health officials in Asia-Pacific countries say they're stepping up efforts to confirm the number of cases of swine flu in the region.
LONDON, April 29 (UPI) -- Health officials in Britain have announced plans to send information leaflets about swine flu to each of 25 million households.
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.
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.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, April 28 (UPI) -- A Prague physician says three Czech tourists, back from Mexico, probably were not infected with swine flu, but test results are still to be completed.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Swiss drug firm Roche said this week it has suspended shipments of its flu drug Tamiflu to the United States to prevent hoarding.
MELBOURNE, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Australia has joined Canada and the United States in adding protection against avian influenza to its counter-terrorism plans.
ATLANTA, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Infectious disease experts say that inhalation anthrax mimics flu in some ways -- but exactly which flu symptoms? Fever, muscle aches, headache and dry cough ca