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A Texas woman with the H1N1 flu virus died earlier this week, state health officials said, the second death outside of Mexico, where the epidemic appeared to be waning.

As consumers, speculators and pork producers react to the wave of swine flu fears, pork prices go on a wild ride.

Experts say the next few days will determine whether the swine flu outbreak will keep expanding or if it will recede in the fashion ...

Health secretary says most economic activity will resume Wednesday, ending a five-day closure.

Mexico's swine flu outbreak appeared to be easing on Saturday with a decrease in serious cases, the government said, but world health officials warned the unpredictable virus could still become a pandemic.

After a week of headlines about the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, many emergency rooms and hospitals are crammed with people, many of whom don't need to be there. "We are spending significant time in the emergency department, calming people down," says a doctor whose company oversees 18 emergency rooms in Southern California.

The swine flu virus is not as lethal as authorities originally thought, Mexico's health secretary said, though the disease continued ...

Hong Kong will quarantine about 300 hotel guests and staff for a week after a guest was found to have the A/H1N1 flu virus.

The Obama administration forgot the first rule in a crisis: Never send Vice President Joe Biden to calm people's fears.