Evidence suggests that the global swine flu pandemic of 2009 began in central Mexico, according to research supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National ...

According to Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the CDC, there is widespread H1N1 activity in 46 states. H1N1 influenza continues to be a disease primarily involving children and young adults. "Many ...

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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Nothing is clear yet about the swine flu threat that emerged from Mexico last ...

NEW YORK — More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report released Friday. The 216 pediatric deaths reported by ...

Complications related to the upper airways, including sinusitis or otitis; Pulmonary complications, including bronchitis, asthma (sometimes with status asthmaticus), and acute exacerbations of chronic ...