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Swine flu sickened 21 more students in Japan and Turkey reported its first case of the potentially pandemic virus that's spread to about 40 countries.

India and Turkey record their first cases of swine flu, giving further evidence that the virus is spreading.

An assistant principal was in critical condition with New York’s most serious case of the swine flu virus so far.

The swine flu panic has faded, but the damage could be lasting to Mexico's tourism industry. Millions of dollars of have been lost from the country's third largest source of revenue. The Caribbean resort of Cancun has been particularly hard hit, with 22 hotels closed and about 10,000 workers furloughed.

A woman in Arizona suffering from a lung condition has apparently become the fourth person in the nation to die with swine flu.

A 30-year-old male student enrolled in the United States has been confirmed as China's second H1N1, or swine flu, case, and its first on the mainland, according to the information office of the Chinese Health Ministry.

The number of confirmed or suspected cases of swine flu in the United States was approaching 1900, federal health officials said late Thursday, with most new cases now caused by person-to-person transmission and not ...

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 ...