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A woman from Cameroon has been found to be infected with an AIDS-like virus that came from gorillas, French researchers reported Sunday.

More than half of children taking antiviral drug Tamiflu suffer side-effects such as nausea, insomnia and nightmares, UK researchers have said.

A federal advisory committee issued sweeping guidelines Wednesday for a vaccination campaign against the pandemic swine flu strain, identifying more than half the U.S. population as targets for the first round of vaccinations.

Swine flu has been hitting pregnant women unusually hard, so they are likely to be among the first group advised to get a new ...

Vaccines should be ready within months for H1N1 flu, which could mutate and become more severe in winter, the World Health Organisation said on Friday. WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said ...

In a race to beat the flu season, medical institutes across the United States will begin human trials for a new H1N1 flu vaccine starting in early August, the University of Maryland announced Wednesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case.

Saying the new H1N1 virus is "unstoppable", the World Health Organization gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain on Monday and said healthcare workers should be the first to get one.

Inovio Biomedical Corporation , a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced today that the company's SynCon™ H1N1 influenza DNA vaccines achieved protective antibody responses against H1N1 swine influenza virus in 100% of pigs immunized with a two-dose vaccine regimen.

The nation's secretary of health and human services told government leaders at a swine-flu preparedness summit Thursday that a vaccine to fight the H1N1 virus should be ready for distribution in mid-October.