DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- The H1N1 influenza is a new strain of the flu virus, not the swine flu that has infected U.S. pigs for 80 years, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says.
QUITO, Ecuador, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The chief of the Ecuadorian presidential security detail has died from the H1N1 flu, government officials confirmed.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 1 (UPI) -- University of Maryland researchers say laboratory tests indicate the H1N1 flu virus spread quickly but it may not mutate into a "superbug" this fall.
ATHENS, Greece, July 10 (UPI) -- Greek Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos has told the nation about 33 percent of the 11.2 million population could be infected with the H1N1 flu virus.
BOSTON, July 3 (UPI) -- Influenza A H1N1, the swine flu virus, has so far spread from person to person less effectively than other seasonal flu viruses, U.S. researchers found.
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 23 (UPI) -- The World Health Organization in Switzerland says it's revising its warning system to reflect the deadliness of a disease and not just its geographic spread.
LONDON, May 15 (UPI) -- The British government has ordered 90 million doses of the vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu virus, the World Health Organization said Friday.
WASHINGTON, May 2 (UPI) -- The United States is working with Russia and other countries to halt the spread of the swine flu virus, a top U.S. public health official said Saturday.
MEXICO CITY , April 28 (UPI) -- Tens of thousands of public venues have been closed to contain the spreading swine flu virus in Mexico City and throughout the country, officials say.
ATLANTA, March 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun a series of experiments to see how likely the bird flu virus could result in a human pandemic.
