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This article discusses the role of politics within the World Health Organization and its impact on determining whether an outbreak qualifies as a "pandemic".

The development of a vaccine is typically a long process involving an intensive research and development stage, animal testing, clinical trials and regulation, and mass production. Given this long timeline, how is a country able to respond to a…

This report provides a summary of experience from the first wave of H1N1 in the UK, as well as an update on the number of confirmed fatal cases as of 25 November 2009.

Article discussing the findings of a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases Online First providing the first global estimates of how many people died as a result of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

This blog post discusses the dismantling of false claims by Joseph Mercola regarding influenza vaccines

Newsvideo reporting that dozens of people have died and hundreds of others have been infected in a viral outbreak in Mexico suspected to have been caused by a strain of swine flu.

Scenes on an aircraft that had just landed from the USA in Shanghai Pudong Airport in China, on May 10, 2009. Everyone was required to remain in their seats until all had been checked with a laser for high body temperature. Quarantine would have been…

This website provides articles, videos, and interactive images on the H1N1 pandemic, its spread, how to prevent infection, and the latest developments in the pandemic.

This update from the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that, worldwide, H1N1 2009 virus transmission remains most intense in parts of India and in parts of the temperate southern hemisphere, particularly New Zealand and more recently in…

This update announces that the H1N1 influenza event has moved into the post-pandemic period.