Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork. It was a name that stuck, and to this day is known as influenza.

About 600 schools have shut their doors already for a period of time this flu season due to an outbreak of the H1N1 virus. With the trend expected to continue, school closings will almost certainly ...

The highest number of US influenza-associated pediatric deaths occurred during the 2024 to 2025 season, excluding the 2009 to 2010 H1N1 pandemic.

Health Minister Budi Gunadi confirmed a recent uptick in influenza cases across Indonesia but said the increase is part of a ...

May 1, 2009 — Seasonal influenza vaccine is likely to have no effect on the swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) strain, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today, and a new vaccine will take about 4 ...

November 5, 2009 — H1N1 influenza is emerging as an equal-opportunity threat, seriously affecting people of all ages — not just younger people, as had been thought — according to the results of a ...

Profits from the H1N1 flu virus are nothing to sneeze at. Oct. 14, 2009— -- Americans are still debating whether to roll up their sleeves for a swine flu shot, but companies have already figured ...

While there were 18,500 laboratory-confirmed deaths due to the H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009, new estimates from an international group of researchers indicate more than half a million people ...

When the state released its most recent report Friday on the flu situation in California, one number stood out as particularly alarming: 95 deaths. That's the total of deaths reported to the state ...

Though most vaccinations are generally thought of as safe by health officials, people who got the 2009 H1N1 vaccine may have had a higher risk of getting Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). Researchers ...

Pre-monsoon and monsoon is the time when we become ill very often because of several deadly viruses. In India, we have recently witnessed a death of a 13-year-old boy from Kerala due to the H1N1 virus ...

WASHINGTON (Sept. 1, 2009) -- All military personnel will be vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus, and the vaccine will be available to all military family members who want it, a Defense Department ...