Track-It Disease

ATLANTA — Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest... Read more

GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear. Read more

Nov. 20--In what he described as an "unconventional" campaign announcement, one Republican candidate running for the 5th District GOP nomination pledged to 10 goals Thursday in Danville. Read more

Nov. 20--DANBURY -- Three students from Western Connecticut State University who were reported to be intoxicated were sent to Danbury Hospital late Thursday and early Friday morning, police said. Read more

Nov. 20--CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Weeks after a cat in Iowa was diagnosed with swine flu, veterinarians in the Charleston area are keeping their eyes open for any signs of the virus in local pets. Read more

Nov. 20--The evidence piling up about the danger of secondhand smoke can't be ignored by Pennsylvania lawmakers. Read more

Nov. 20--Six more Indiana swine flu deaths were reported last week, even as the number of people hospitalized with flu symptoms continued to drop. Read more

HANOI, Vietnam — Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty. Read more

BEIJING — China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up.... Read more

ATLANTA — When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right. Read more