CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has gone to Mexico, the apparent epicenter of the swine flu outbreak where more than 100 people have died in suspected cases. With governments ...

Obama says outbreak could turn out to be just like annual winter flu outbreaks. May 1, 2009 — -- President Obama said today that while the United States is still preparing for the worst in the ...

Those exposed are taking extra precaution to keep the virus from spreading. April 26, 2009— -- When Patrick Henshaw's son became sick last Friday, little did he know that the 18-year-old had ...

A potentially deadly new strain of the swine flu virus cropped up in more places in the United States and Mexico on Saturday, in what the World Health Organization called "a public health emergency of ...

In the coming weeks, we'll know whether the current swine flu scare is a real pandemic or (hopefully) something much smaller. Either way, we are guaranteed to become a population with a heightened ...

Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can ...

MEXICO CITY — Ominous developments Monday in the swine flu epidemic — an increase to 149 deaths and more signs that the virus can jump repeatedly from human to human — prompted the World Health ...

SEATTLE - At least five schools in Western Washington will be closed Friday, some as long as a week, because of the growing number of possible swine flu cases in the state, which has reached a total ...

Experts say there are signs that the most recent outbreak of H1N1 has peaked in the United States. But epidemiologists warn that Thanksgiving travel could help the swine flu make a comeback. Every ...

No one told Hernandez that her son had become Mexico's earliest confirmed case of swine flu until the Veracruz governor helicoptered in on Monday. But Edgar's case confirmed for residents what they ...

The big news this weekend was Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s Sunday press conference during which she declared a “public health emergency” in response to a possible swine flu epidemic.