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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new vaccine could possibly protect against various strains of the influenza virus, from H1N1 (also known as the swine flu) to H5N1 (currently being referred to as bird flu).

While letting your flu-ridden family member rest and recover, you can tackle a few important cleaning tasks to help prevent the spread of germs. “Surfaces should be wiped down with diluted ...

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 ...

I can remember the first swine flu back in 2010 and that, interestingly enough, that flu year was almost year round. We were even seeing flu cases in July and August of that year.