In 2009, the world met a new influenza virus that travelled faster than many public-health systems could track it. First detected in Mexico and the United States in April that year, the novel ...

Academics with links to the pharmaceutical industry were more likely to talk up the risks of the 2009-10 swine flu pandemic in the media and promote the use of drugs than those without these ties, ...

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 ...

In March and early April 2009, a new, swine-origin 2009-H1N1 influenza A virus (S-OIV) 2 emerged in Mexico and the United States. During the first few weeks of surveillance, the virus spread by ...

Washington found itself in the grip yesterday of two contagions: swine flu and Specter fever. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) was holding the first congressional hearing to determine what more can be done to ...

Researchers have found a new strain of flu virus with "pandemic potential" in China that can jump from pigs to humans, triggering a suite of worrying headlines. It's excellent this virus has been ...

DALLAS (NEXSTAR) — A strain of swine flu that scientists fear has the potential to become a pandemic in humans has been identified in China. According to a report from the BBC, researchers are ...

Scientists in China have discovered a strain of influenza in pigs that could potentially jump to humans, according to a new study. While some experts say it's too early to say if this will lead to a ...

The new virus, which researchers called the G4 EA H1N1 virus, is genetically descended from the H1N1 swine flu that caused a pandemic in 2009. G4 now shows “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate ...

Maharashtra is witnessing a sharp rise in influenza, with 2,320 H1N1 cases and eight deaths reported between January 1 and ...