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While investigators trudge through pig farms and remote villages in Mexico, searching for clues about the new swine flu, answers about the virus' origin may finally appear on a computer, based on genetic codes.

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.

Chinese health authorities have quarantined 164 of the 189 passengers and crew members aboard a flight from Mexico to Shanghai that carried a man now ill with the A/H1N1 flu virus.

Canadian officials say pigs in the province of Alberta have been infected with the new swine flu virus and are under quarantine.

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 World Health Organization said on Friday that tests had shown the current seasonal vaccine against flu would have little effect against the new H1N1 strain.