The swine flu virus can have more serious effects on people living in poverty, the WHO says.
Three players at the club have been recovering from the swine flu virus.
The United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency also told CNN that the use of face masks was not necessary or recommended for protection against the swine flu virus.
In New Zealand, officials said 22 students and three teachers, who returned from a three-week language trip to Mexico, may have been infected with the swine flu virus.
CNN: U.S. prepares for possible swine flu epidemic as global cases rise
Experts at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases heard how the 'H1N1pdm09' swine flu virus is still sensitive to another antiviral drug Relenza (zanamivir).
The swine flu virus that has sparked fear and precautions worldwide appears to be no more dangerous than the regular flu virus that makes its rounds each year, U.S. officials said Monday.
Already, some Southeastern states -- particularly Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida -- have been hit hard by the swine flu virus, also known as 2009 H1N1 influenza, perhaps because schools opened earlier there, she said.
Medical screening for the swine flu virus has been introduced at many airports around the world for passengers arriving on international flights but there are concerns that many people may not be aware they are infected.
Security Council as a "terror council, " suggested the H1N1 swine-flu virus was a military tool and called for renewed investigations into the assassinations of John F.
Though commonly known as swine flu, this virus is not contracted through eating pork products.
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The company running the experiment, VaxInnate, a closely held biotech firm, is working on technology that could derive in only six weeks a new vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, the virus causing the global scare.
Swine flu is caused by a virus similar to the regular flu virus that circulates in people every year, but is a strain that is typically found only in pigs or in people who have direct contact with pigs.
So far this year, however, there's little sign of seasonal flu in the U.S., where nearly all of the circulating flu virus is H1N1, or swine flu, Frieden said.
Because swine flu is a new virus, no one in the world had immunity to it when it came on the scene earlier this year, so it is spreading quickly.
Now, researchers are taking the knowledge from that study to work toward an antibody treatment for swine flu, the 2009 H1N1 virus that has sickened hundreds of people worldwide.
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Swine flu is caused by a virus similar to the type of flu virus that, in various forms, infects people every year, but is a strain typically found only in pigs -- or in people who have direct contact with pigs.
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After a week of headlines about the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, many emergency rooms and hospitals are crammed with people, many of whom don't need to be there.
CNN: 'Walking well' flood hospitals with -- or without -- flu symptoms
Researchers in the United States have already taking steps to crack the genetic code of the virus behind the swine flu outbreak in order to produce a vaccine, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
But we have analysed the potential killer virus against the history of the 2009 Swine Flu and where a drugs cure for a future avian human-to-human killer virus will come far too late.
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The H1N1 virus, which causes swine flu, first appeared in Mexico in 2009 and rapidly spread around the world.
The real significance of Biden's boneheaded comments is that they help feed the national hysteria over the virus formerly known as swine flu.
Dr Stephen Bridgman said Guernsey was not "complacent" and needed to carry out the extra tests because people with symptoms may find the flu carries strains of the swine virus in the background.
Melbourne-based company CSL Ltd. plans to test a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, on 240 volunteers, a company representative said.
CNN: Australia to begin first human test of swine flu vaccine
He and Weiss are not the first City players to be diagnosed with swine flu, defender Micah Richards having contracted the virus on holiday in July.
BBC: Manchester City's Craig Bellamy recovers from swine flu
An estimated 22 million people in the United States have contracted the virus, commonly known as swine flu, resulting in about 98, 000 hospitalizations through October 17, Schuchat said.
Health officials have been concerned about how to keep the virus, also known as swine flu, from spreading among the millions of visitors expected in Saudi Arabia during this year's Hajj.
As of July 31, the total number of victims killed by the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, stood at 1, 154 -- an increase of 338 since WHO's previous update on July 27.
The failure by U.S. and other governments' officials to recognize the connection between Shariah and jihad (of either the violent or stealthy kind) is like refusing to acknowledge that there is a common virus causing an outbreak of swine flu.
"What the epidemiologists are seeing now with this particular strain of U.N. is that the severity of the disease, the severity of the flu -- how sick you get -- is not stronger than regular seasonal flu, " Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday as the worldwide number of confirmed cases of swine flu -- technically known as 2009 H1N1 virus -- topped 1, 080.
The children were infected with a virus known as swine influenza A H1N1, which has a unique combination of genes not previously seen in flu viruses in either humans or swine - although it shares similarities with a virus that has been circulating in pigs since 1999.
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