The World Health Organization says the outbreak of swine flu in North America has “pandemic potential” because it can spread from human to human. What flu pandemics are and how they might be stopped or slowed down: — New forms of flu virus often appear first in livestock, particularly poultry and pigs. The vast majority of these animal viruses do not cross over to humans. You can ord...

OAXACA, Mexico  —  Almost two weeks before tests confirmed she was the first person to die of swine flu, doctors in the southern colonial town of Oaxaca couldn’t figure out what was wrong with a 39-year-old woman who arrived at their hospital gasping for air, her hands and feet blue from oxygen-starved blood. They administered antibiotics, but she only got worse. They hooked her to a ven...

Mexico took even more drastic action to stamp out a swine flu epidemic, ordering a halt to nonessential business and federal government activities, as the World Health Organization ratcheted up its pandemic alert, warning that “all of humanity” is threatened. The dire warning showed that world health officials are very worried about the potential for massive numbers of deaths worldwide...

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The WHO (World Health Organization) has raised the Swine Flu Pandemic Alert to a PHASE LEVEL 5. Level 5 means: Phase 5 is characterized by human-to-human spread of the virus into at least two countries in one WHO region. While most countries will not be affected at this stage, the declaration of Phase 5 is a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, ...

There are a lot of different types of masks to wear for protection.  Which ones work? The cloth patches in green, blue and white are everywhere, clamped tight over the mouth and nose of teachers, toddlers, policemen and drunks. Even the statue at the church of St. Jude, patron of lost causes, has been fitted with a light-blue surgical mask to ward off swine flu. But do they work? While Mexico has...

GENEVA — The World Health Organization is calling a third emergency meeting of its flu experts in response to a spike in swine flu cases. The panel meeting Wednesday will discuss the current alert level — at phase 4, two levels below the threshold for a full pandemic outbreak. In response to the panel’s earlier advice, WHO declared the outbreak an international public health emergency a...

WASHINGTON —  The first U.S. death from swine flu has been confirmed — a 23-month-old child in Texas — amid increasing global anxiety over a health menace that authorities around the world are struggling to contain. The flu death was confirmed Wednesday by Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a cable news interview, he gave no other deta...

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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Tuesday to respond to the swine flu outbreak as two fatalities in Los Angeles were being investigated for possible links to the virus. The governor’s office said the declaration was not sparked by the deaths of two men but in part because California was the first U.S. state to confirm a case of the H1N1 vir...