Just as flu discussions went cold influenza A-H1N1 wants to talk again. The US was less concerned as the American media continued to bring in scanty reports. The average Joe and Joanne finding flu articles buried here and there on Google. Where were the diehards on search? Over at Flu Wiki most likely. Once the [...]

Four major US national laboratories have worked together to develop a computer model to help airport authorities screen passengers for pandemic influenza. The tool can detect false negatives, people with influenza who slip through the screening process, and so cut the risk of infected passengers unknowingly spreading disease across the nation.
During a confirmed outbreak of [...]

The MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at Imperial College London and the World Health Organisation have worked with public health agencies in Mexico, to assess the ongoing swine flu epidemic. Their results are published today in Science and can be summarized:

In Mexico, influenza A (H1N1) is fatal in about 4 in 1000 cases, [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) convenes in Geneva today to discuss swine flu, a form of potentially lethal influenza, that first emerged in Mexico. Already, the WHO has announced that the world is close to a flu pandemic, the first in more than four decades, and has put the world on alert 4 (highest alert [...]