Tamiflu and Relenza can prevent swine flu, but the CDC urges even at-risk people to try to avoid using the drugs in this way. Not only is supply insufficient for preventive use, ...

Swine flu (H1N1) has been in the news since it first appeared this spring, and while there have been deaths and hospitalizations in countries worldwide, most cases have been relatively mild. And ...

Swine flu, also known as H1N1, is a viral infection resembling the respiratory infection pigs get. In 2009, an H1N1 pandemic affected millions globally.

A swine flu vaccine is available for the prevention of the infection. Special high-risk populations need to be covered fully to prevent possible complications. H1N1 2009 that caused swine flu is ...

Assess your risk of contracting H1N1 swine flu with our easy-to-use Swine Flu Risk Calculator. Identify risk factors, ...

If you have the H1N1 flu (swine flu), your health care provider may direct you to go to the hospital so treatment can begin right away. You also will be asked to help keep it from spreading to ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisory committee endorsed fall flu vaccinations Thursday for just ...

The flu virus is lingering in Arizona and the season has been vicious. Pediatric flu deaths reached the highest level in recent history.

Although flu is often mild in pigs, the animals are renowned for giving rise to novel flu variants. In 2009, one of these new variants, which originated in pigs in Mexico, set off a pandemic that ...

The 2009 swine flu pandemic, for example, resulted from a zoonotic transmission from hogs to humans. About 25% of the human population was infected with the new variant and more than half a ...