A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer. It appears to evade some of our immunity, has kick-started a flu season ...

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The symptoms and severity of H3N2 illness have been similar to seasonal flu, including fever, cough, runny nose, and possibly ...

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a computer-designed vaccine that protects swine from flu—and may one day do the same for ...

HISD has announced two schools have closed until further notice because of possible — but not confirmed — cases of swine flu. Harvard Elementary and Hamilton Middle School, both in the Heights, are ...

Oct. 26 -- SUNDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- President Barack Obama has declared the H1N1 swine flu a national emergency. His proclamation, signed Friday night and released by the White House ...

A new analysis suggests H1N1 deaths 15 times higher than lab tests counted. June 25, 2012— -- The swine flu virus, H1N1, may have killed 15 times the number of people counted by the World Health ...

A new study in the British medical journal, BMJ, suggests that big-name flu treatments oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza) have only a “small benefit” in kids under 12 — but can have serious ...