Kolkata: Two children have been admitted to a city private hospital with swine flu or H1N1, even as three others have tested ...

When vaccines are designed, scientists have aimed to prevent the virus from spreading to others, or stop it from producing ...

Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson, MD, MPH You may have heard the term H3N2 in the news or read about it online. But ...

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 ...

Public health officials have been warning for some time that nothing about the flu is predictable. But here’s something that is: When it comes to a new strain of the flu like H1N1, which has already ...

The government will buy the vaccine supply along with needles, syringes, and alcohol swabs, and provide these items without cost to states according to population. State health departments and some ...

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 ...

Six months later, Chan’s admonitions seem prescient. Rich countries’ hoards have become massive surpluses, and many nations are now trying frantically to cancel pending orders of vaccines or transfer ...