swine flu pandemic

HONG KONG (AP) -- A leading virus expert urged health authorities around the world Sunday to stay vigilant even though the recent swine flu pandemic was less deadly than expected, warning that bird flu could spark the next global outbreak....

Many national authorities have begun canceling vaccine orders and shutting down telephone hot lines. Did the World Health Organization overreact?

GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization says it will likely decide Tuesday whether to declare the swine flu pandemic over....

The UK handled the swine flu pandemic well but there are key lessons for the future, a report warns.

A top World Health Organization official Thursday dismissed charges that the agency exaggerated the threat posed by the H1N1 virus and that it had been unduly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry to issue dire warnings about the swine flu pandemic.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Big businesses are spending serious time and money trying to limit the swine flu pandemic's impact on operations, from bankrolling video on good hygiene to training employees to cover for co-workers with critical jobs....

The Obama administration is trying to stave off criticism that it was ill-prepared for the swine-flu pandemic amid a shortage of vaccines and long lines of frustrated people awaiting inoculations.

One dose of vaccine might be enough to protect both adults and children older than 6 months against the swine flu pandemic, an international expert panel has concluded.

The federal government's unprecedented campaign to protect the nation against the swine flu pandemic has gotten off to a sputtering start, frustrating parents, pregnant women and others anxious to get immunized against the new virus.

The decision to close a school during the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic should be made locally after weighing the benefits against the disruptions such an action would cause, according to updated guidelines released by the CDC.