News and Features Related to Cold & Flu

1. Swine Flu Vaccination May Target Schools
   

   July 9, 2009 -- Health officials are looking toward thousands of schools and day care centers to mount a possible mass vaccination program against the H1N1 swine flu this fall, government planners said Thursday. The plan -- which still depends on unanswered questions of how easy a swine flu vaccine

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2. Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu in U.S.?
   

   July 7, 2009 -- Is Tamiflu-resistant swine flu spreading in the U.S.? A 16-year-old girl traveling from San Francisco was found to be infected with Tamiflu-resistant swine flu after triggering a temperature-monitoring device in the Hong Kong airport. That has set off a West Coast search for others w

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3. Swine Flu: 10 Things Not to Do
   

   Swine flu isn't in the headlines as much as it was a couple of months ago, and while there have been deaths and hospitalizations in countries worldwide, most cases have been relatively mild. That's the good news. But the bad news is, swine flu isn't gone. In fact, it may pick up steam during the usu

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4. Swine Flu Vaccine: The Race Is On
   

   June 26, 2009 – The U.S. is racing to make huge supplies of swine flu vaccine -- and trying to figure out who needs it most -- even as the pandemic sweeps the globe. At least one of the five vaccine makers supplying U.S. swine flu vaccine already has bulk vaccine coming off the production line. The

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5. 1 Million Swine Flu Cases in U.S.
   

   June 25, 2009 -- Over 1 million Americans have had swine flu, the CDC estimates. Half those cases have been in New York City. The estimate, from a still-being-analyzed CDC study, was reported by CDC flu researcher Lyn Finelli, DrPH, at a meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practic

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6. Summer Gives No Relief From Swine Flu
   

   June 18, 2009 -- About 7% of the population in areas highly affected by H1N1 swine flu report influenza-like symptoms, a spokesperson for the CDC said during a news briefing today. Daniel Jernigan, MD, MPH, deputy director of the Influenza Division at the National Center for Immunization and Respira

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7. WHO Declares Swine Flu Pandemic
   

   June 11, 2009 - It's official: We're in a swine flu pandemic, the World Health Organization declared today. "The world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic," WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, MD, said at a news conference. That sounds scary. But neither the H1N1 swine flu virus nor t

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8. Swine Flu Pandemic FAQ
   

   Swine flu is pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared. The declaration does not mean that swine flu -- aka novel influenza 2009 type A H1N1 -- is any more deadly today than it was yesterday. A pandemic sounds scary. But what does it really mean? Here are WebMD's answers to your que

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9. WHO: World Closer to Swine Flu Pandemic
   

   June 2, 2009 -- The world is "getting closer" to a full-scale swine flu pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns. The official declaration of a pandemic alert -- triggered by widespread H1N1 swine flu beyond the Americas -- will come with a new severity rating, said Keiji Fukuda, WHO inte

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10. CDC Prepares for Swine Flu Surge in Fall
    

    May 26, 2009 - As the U.S. swine flu epidemic eases -- except in the Northeast -- the CDC is shifting its focus to preparing for a surge of cases when flu season returns in the fall. The count of people who have been infected with the H1N1 swine flu continues to rise. Today's official count is 6,764

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