One death appears to be unrelated to China's H1N1 vaccine, and the other case is being investigated, officials say ... Two people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the last week, but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being investigated ...
State and county health officials say the outbreak appears to have peaked, but it will be another month before they can be certain ... As New York City announced two more swine flu deaths Tuesday, bringing the state's death toll to four, health officials in Los Angeles County and California said the worst of the outbreak -- at least locally -- appears to be over ...
A New York assistant principal becomes the city's first victim. A health official says complications probably played a role in the man's death ... A school assistant principal who was sick for several days with swine flu became the nation's sixth death linked to the H1N1 virus on Sunday, and the city's first ...
Genetic data indicate this outbreak won't be as deadly as that of 1918, or even the average winter ... As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza -- at least in its current form -- isn't shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous pandemics ...
WHO raises the level from a 4 to a 5, a situation in which the likelihood of a pandemic 'is very high or inevitable,' an official says. A toddler is the first confirmed death in the U.S ... As the swine flu outbreak continued to spread to countries around the world, the World Health Organization today took the unprecedented step of raising the infectious disease alert level to phase 5, setting the stage for increased efforts to combat the infection ...
A toddler in Texas is the first victim of the disease in America. The president calls the situation 'serious' and notes a recommendation that schools close if a student is found to have the virus ... The swine flu outbreak has claimed its first victim in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control: a 23-month-old child who died in Texas ...