If you're waiting to get the H1N1 vaccine, you've got another chance.
Starting today, children under 17 will not be allowed to visit patients at five local hospitals this flu season.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says vaccine for the swine flu virus "is coming out the door as fast as it comes off the production line."
A letter
to parents says school officials learned Friday that the student may have the N1H1 virus.
Swine flu is expected to hit hard this fall, and a vaccine won't be ready until October.
The declaration will clear the way to open up treatment facilities outside traditional hospitals.
The latest government survey has found that 1 in 5 U.S. children had a flu-like illness earlier this month, and most of those cases likely were swine flu.
A top-ranking official of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says production of a vaccine for swine flu virus is behind schedule and people should take precautionary steps to prevent its spread.
The H1N1 virus has been confirmed in a sample taken from a pig that was displayed at the Minnesota State Fair, the first time the virus has been found in a U.S. pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.
The federal government has begun a study of how much swine flu vaccine to give to people with asthma.
A New York congressman has issued a warning about con artists selling fake flu drugs online.
The CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat says the numbers are startling, and no one knows how long this swine flu outbreak will last.
New reports on swine flu in Canada and Mexico describe rapidly worsening symptoms in the sickest patients.
Georgia is initially receiving about 55,000 doses of a nasal spray version of the vaccine.
A new survey shows colleges and universities in Alabama are being hit harder by the flu than schools in any other state except Washington, and a state health official says the early start of classes is a factor.
The Macon-Bibb County Health Department and some local pharmacies have geared up to vaccinate those who want flu shots.
People who have received the shot haven't had to deal with serious side effects.
Indiana and Tennessee are among the first states that will vaccinate people against the swine flu.
People asked questions and listened to the answers about the H1N1 virus and vaccine at a forum Tuesday night.
Local health officials will update the public on the swine flu virus in a community forum. Watch it here LIVE starting at 7 p.m.
Federal health officials put out new guidelines Tuesday that say the flu medicines Tamiflu and Relenza should only be used to treat people who are sick with the flu and at high risk for complications.
A study of swine flu's impact on children finds that most of its young victims have been of school age.
The students aren't attending classes and school workers are delivering food to them.
Airlines say they're preparing for the return of swine flu this fall
but stop short of declaring they'll bar passengers with symptoms from
planes or give refunds for trips canceled because of the illness.
Americans are taking swine flu more seriously now than they did last
spring, when the emerging pandemic began causing widespread illness,
Bibb, Peach, Baldwin and Monroe counties and Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville are among the schools reporting dozens of flu cases.
Some Georgia colleges are seeing a spike in swine flu cases as students return to campus for the fall semester.
The interim director of the Macon-Bibb Emergency Management Agency says the city and county are what she calls 95 percent prepared to handle a swine flu outbreak.
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