Swine Flu Epidemic

Swine flu could hit up to 40 percent in US

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 08.24.2009 | Home


ATLANTA — In a disturbing new projection, health officials say up to 40 percent of Americans could get swine flu this year and next and several ...

Swine Flu Profits: Drug Companies To Reap Billions

Financial Times | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business


Some of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies are reaping billions of dollars in extra revenue amid global concern about the spread of swine fl...

67 Air Force Cadets Stricken With Swine Flu

AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Home


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The number of cadets with confirmed cases of the swine flu at the Air Force Academy has increased to 67. The Gazette ...

NY woman in 50s becomes US' 11th swine flu death

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 06.24.2009 | Home


NEW YORK — A woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city's second victim and the nation's 11th. The woman, who was in her 50s, ...

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 06.01.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Iraq's Reversing Facts: Six car bombs strike Shia areas of Baghdad. This is the latest in a series of rec...

World In Photos: May 1, 2009

Huffington Post | Posted 06.01.2009 | World


The HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. This Huffington Post World feature is available Monday t...

Swine Flu: Cuba Becomes First Country To Impose Travel Ban

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 05.29.2009 | World


MEXICO CITY — The toll from the swine flu epidemic appears to be stabilizing in Mexico, the health secretary said late Tuesday, with only seven ...

SWINE FLU: Mexico Faces Criticism Over Response

AP | NIKO PRICE | Posted 05.28.2009 | World


MEXICO CITY — Two weeks after the first known swine flu death, Mexico still hasn't given medicine to the families of the dead. It hasn't determi...