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Antibiotics if not properly taken and completed may lead to super infection/drug resistance in our body. Due to wrong usage of antibiotics the bacteria is grow…

Agence France-Presse|LA JOLLA - A strain of swine flu that is resistant to treatment with the drug Tamiflu has been discovered near the US-Mexican border, the …

MANILA - A 49-year old woman from Metro Manila with Influenza A (H1N1) has died of congestive heart failure, the Department of Health said Monday. Health Secre…

Reuters | GENEVA - The World Health Organization declared an influenza pandemic on Thursday and advised governments to prepare for a long-term battle against a…

There are five new confirmed influenza A (H1N1) cases in the country, Health Secretary Francisco Duque said on Monday. However, seven of the 16 who had previou…

The Department of Health (DOH) announced Friday that the Philippines now has 14 confirmed cases of influenza A(H1N1) virus, but advised the public not to be al…

The Philippines on Sunday confirmed its second influenza A (H1N1) case. In an interview on ANC's Dateline Philippines on Sunday, Health Secretary Francisco…

Mexico 3,892 (75) first reported laboratory-confirmed cases on Apr 24; first few laboratory-confirmed deaths reported on Apr 27 United States 5,764 (9) first r…

GENEVA--Health experts fear that anti-flu drugs out in the market might not be able to readily cure the H1N1 virus if it mutates or changes its organism appear…

Health Secretary Francisco Duque on Thursday evening announced the first case of influenza A (H1N1) in the Philippines. Duque, who is currently at the World He…

LONDON - The World Health Organization has been warning for weeks that swine flu is on the verge of flaring into the first flu pandemic in four decades. Countr…

Agence France-Presse|Latest snapshot of the swine flu crisis, as of May 4, 2009, 18:52 GMT +0800 Main events of the past 24 hours in the swine flu crisis: - Me…

In the 2009 revision of the phase descriptions, WHO has retained the use of a six-phased approach for easy incorporation of new recommendations and approaches …

About influenza pandemic "An influenza pandemic is a rare but recurrent event." -WHO "A pandemic occurs when a new influenza virus emerges and s…

HONG KONG - Hong Kong's leader says the territory has detected a case of swine flu, in Asia's first confirmed instance of the disease. Donald Tsang tol…

Agence France-Presse|WASHINGTON - A 23-month-old toddler has died of swine flu in Texas, the first confirmed death in the United States as well as the first ou…

Agence France-Presse|GENEVA - The World Health Organisation on Tuesday stressed that border screenings "don't work" in detecting passengers who m…

Here's a list of pandemics and pandemic threats that have swept the globe over the years. An image of the SARS coronavirus captured by the University of Ho…

Agence France-Presse|A group of foreign health experts have arrived in the Philippines to see if fruit bats may have infected pigs with a non-lethal form of th…

The Department of Health on Monday allayed fears of the possible spread of the deadly swine flu virus in the Philippines, saying that there are no reported cas…