KOBE, Japan, May 16 (UPI) -- Japan reported its first domestic infection of swine flu Saturday, officials said.
MADISON, Ala., May 3 (UPI) -- Elementary schools in Madison, Ala., will be closed up to two weeks because of the swine flu outbreak, officials said Sunday.
LONDON, May 2 (UPI) -- A healthcare consultancy group says more people in Britain have missed work due to illness during the ongoing swine flu outbreak.
ATLANTA, April 30 (UPI) -- The genetic makeup of the A/H1N1 virus -- known as swine flu -- may mean the current outbreak won't be as deadly as an average flu season, a U.S. doctor said.
LONDON, April 29 (UPI) -- Health officials in Britain have announced plans to send information leaflets about swine flu to each of 25 million households.
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.
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
MEXICO CITY, April 24 (UPI) -- Mexican health officials Friday ordered schools closed around the capital for fear of worsening a swine flu outbreak that may have killed as many as 60 people.
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Texas health officials are monitoring an early flu outbreak that has forced about a dozen school districts to close down for a few days. Absenteeism was so high
