The death was announced last Thursday as part of the Department's weekly swine flu update.
Indicators of swine flu are not unlike those for regular old run-of-the-mill flu.
And Longini says the apparent new strain of swine flu appears to be here to stay.
Predicting the path of a swine flu outbreak is next to impossible, public health officials say.
Swine flu has been shown to hit young people and pregnant women particularly hard.
Dr Harper said 17 people had died from swine flu since the beginning of the year.
Health authorities have pointed out that this swine flu strain has never been seen.
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Drugmakers around the world are rushing to produce the swine flu vaccine by this fall.
India has reported a total of 959 cases of swine flu and 14 deaths.
The swine flu now seems routine, just another human flu circulating among the population.
From December 2005 to February 2009, 12 cases of human infection with swine flu were documented.
If swine flu can mutate to spread between humans, what does this mean for avian flu?
Swine flu is so far thought to have killed nearly 160 people in Mexico.
Since mid-April, when swine flu was discovered, the CDC has tallied 522 deaths in the nation.
We are closely monitoring the emerging cases of swine flu in the United States.
Though commonly known as swine flu, this virus is not contracted through eating pork products.
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Another antiviral drug, called zanamivir or Relenza, made by GlaxoSmithKline, is also effective against swine flu.
Sales of respiratory masks, spurred by swine flu, and consumer electronics demand boosted results.
The pickup in demand for swine flu treatments was not enough to maintain profits.
Swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease that affects pigs and can jump to humans.
Slippery Rock University isn't the only school making changes to graduation ceremonies because of swine flu fears.
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New York State has already made the new H1N1 swine flu shots mandatory for health care workers.
"I walked in and said 'I'm from Mexico but I don't have Swine flu', " she says, joking.
Swine flu is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza, according to the CDC.
FluTracker, meanwhile, has now become one of the most popular sources of information on the swine flu.
The swine flu virus can have more serious effects on people living in poverty, the WHO says.
Analysts highlighted the likely positive effects of swine flu treatment orders in the third quarter as well.
But Wales was still well behind England in terms of the numbers of swine flu cases, she added.
Say one of them were to reluctantly come to work bearing the dreaded swine flu, the argument went.
Last year, all children between six months and five years were offered the pandemic H1N1 swine flu jab.
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