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The World Health Organization is looking into reports in Britain and the United States that the H1N1 flu may have developed resistance to Tamiflu in people with severely suppressed immune systems, a spokesman said Tuesday.

About 40 people have died after being inoculated against H1N1 pandemic flu, but investigations so far show the fatalities were not caused by the vaccine, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

More than half of all adult Americans say they don't want to get the H1N1 flu vaccine, according to a new national poll.

Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu about four times the estimate ...

China’s actions, especially quarantines of foreign visitors, brought criticism abroad, but health officials say the spread of H1N1 may have been slowed.

A proposed U.S. law requiring employers to provide paid sick leave would help stop the spread of swine flu and increase productivity, supporters argued on Tuesday.

The White House denied on Tuesday that any H1N1 flu vaccine is now going to terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, heading off controversy over swine flu prevention priorities.

Pregnant women need only one dose, but children under 10 still need two doses, federal officials said.

Independent experts meet today as part of the government's efforts to monitor campaign.

A senior adviser to President Obama says the government will catch up to the demand for swine flu vaccine within a week.