Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

World Health Organization (WHO) officials declared a pandemic of H1N1 influenza on Thursday, two months after the first cases of the new flu virus were reported in Mexico. It is the first flu pandemic ...

The first batches of the new H1N1 influenza vaccine are being distributed in the St. Louis area. The first 1,800 doses to arrive in the city are in nasal spray form and are going first to those on the ...

China has detected eight people infected with mutated forms of the H1N1 flu virus, a health official said Wednesday, but flu drugs and vaccines still work against it. Flu viruses mutate easily, and ...

Aug 21 (Reuters) - Japan said this week the new H1N1 influenza virus has reached epidemic proportions in the country, but it is still lagging in vaccine production. The new virus, which emerged in ...

A new analysis suggests H1N1 deaths 15 times higher than lab tests counted. June 25, 2012— -- The swine flu virus, H1N1, may have killed 15 times the number of people counted by the World Health ...

* Pigs were at state fair where four teens got sick * USDA says no direct link with H1N1 human outbreak * USDA says preliminary positives in three swine (adds preliminary positives in three swine, ...