ABC News expands medical coverage, hires doctor who led CDC's swine flu response ABC News has hired a top government doctor as part ...
President Barack Obama on Friday named New York City health chief Thomas Frieden as the new director of the US Centers for Disease ...
FILE - This Wednesday, May 6, 2009, file photo shows Richard Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaking in Atlanta Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Besser was briefing the media on the current status of the swine flu ...
The number of confirmed US cases of A(H1N1) flu rose Thursday to 896 from 642 in 41 states, according to a daily report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We expect to see a large increase in those numbers ...
Was alarm on swine flu overblown? Some Americans say health officials 'cried swine' Did government health officials "cry swine" when they sounded the alarm on what looked like a threatening new flu? The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying ...
Cancel plans for that "swine flu party": a top US health official says deliberately trying to get infected with the A(H1N1) flu virus as protection against a future more virulent strain is a bad idea. Having "swine flu party" is "a big ...
VACCINE MAKERS ARE READY THIS TIME No one knows yet whether the swine flu outbreak will turn into an alarming pandemic or a blip in the annals of infectious disease. The good news is, the vaccine industry is far better prepared to ...
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (R) is given a tour by Center for Disease Control (CDC) acting director Richard Besser of the emergency operations center of the CDC , in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on 05 May 2009 Copyright ...
CDC says 15 is median age of US swine flu hospital cases; older people may have more immunity People hospitalized in the United States for swine flu are turning out to be younger than is typical for regular flu. U.S. health officials ...
May 04, 2009 - Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Over 226 swine flu cases have been confirmed in 30 states across the United States as of May 4, 2009. The results are more from lab tests finally coming through then an increase in ...
Center for Disease Control and Prevention acting director Richard Besser addresses the media about recent outbreaks of swine flu during a news conference, Monday April 27, 2009, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis) Copyright 2009 AP News
Joan Tishkevich's joy was unequivocal. "YES!" the mother of two shouted into the phone Tuesday after hearing that federal health officials were no longer advising schools to close for swine flu. It meant her 8-year-old son, Jack, would soon go back to ...
