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.
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.
ATLANTA, July 3 (UPI) -- Health officials in Japan and Hong Kong said each had a H1N1 flu patient resistant to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu, days after a Denmark patient was resistant.
RENFREW, Scotland, June 6 (UPI) -- A baby born prematurely to a woman critically ill with swine flu has shown no symptoms of the H1N1 virus, doctors in Scotland said.
SANTIAGO, Chile, June 3 (UPI) -- The first fatality from the H1N1 flu virus in South America was a Chilean man, health officials in that country said Wednesday.
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.
EAST LANSING, Mich., July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say newly developed technology may produce human flu vaccines more quickly and cheaply than current methods.
