From December 2005 through February 2009, only 12 cases of swine flu were reported in the United States. In 1988 a pregnant woman died after contact with sick pigs. In 1976, swine flu at an US ...

Spurred by the safety concerns that sank vaccination efforts during the 1976 swine flu scare (a scare caused by a very different generation of flu vaccine against a very different swine flu virus ...

“I’m guessing it’s going to be quite reactogenic,” Hotez said. He pointed to the 1976 swine flu vaccine, which produced a strong immune response to the whole virus it contained but also ...

A swine flu vaccine in 1976 similarly faced severe backlash when it was linked to an increased risk of a serious neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré Syndrome. The U.S. vaccination program ...

“I’m guessing it’s going to be quite reactogenic,” Hotez said. He pointed to the 1976 swine flu vaccine, which produced a strong immune response to the whole virus it contained but also caused high ...

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a ...

Swine Flu' Strain Has Passed from Humans to Swine Nearly 400 Times Since 2009 July 27, 2023 — A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic -- pdm09 -- shows ...

H1N1 flu is also known as swine flu. It's called swine flu because in the past, the people who caught it had direct contact with pigs. That changed several years ago, when a new virus emerged that ...

The pediatric death toll from the flu this season is the highest it’s been since the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Researchers identified a novel genotype (D1.1) of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 spreading among wild birds, poultry, ...

More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report released Friday. The 216 pediatric deaths reported by the ...