Emergency department visits and hospitalizations in 2009, when the H1N1 pandemic began, were roughly double the ED visits and hospitalizations in 2008, according to a statistical brief from the ...

Norwegian health authorities said Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those ...

The State Health Department says four more people have died from the H1N1 flu. That brings the number of deaths in Illinois to 83 since last spring. More than 2,600 have landed in the hospital. H1N1 ...

Mexico City: Mexico has seen a sharp jump in cases of the virus H1N1, popularly known as swine flu, killing 68 people so far this flu season, according to health ministry data. The overall number of ...

Imagine a global travel hub that thought it had seen every disease. From the 1918 Spanish flu to the 1957 Asian flu and the 2003 SARS scare, it had faced them all. Then, in June 2009, H1N1 arrived.

Swine flu, scientifically known as the H1N1 virus, is making headlines again as cases surge in various parts of the country, particularly in the national capital. With symptoms resembling those of ...