Q. What are side effects of a swine flu shot or the nasal spray? - Unknown sender ...more

December 22, 2009

It appears the slower-than-anticipated nationwide distribution of the H1N1 flu vaccine will continue well into the holiday season. Health officials remain unable to say when doses will reach an increasingly frustrated public. ...more

November 23, 2009

Q. What are the signals for swine flu? How could we recover from swine flu? What is the treatment of swine flu? - Muhammad, Kuwait ...more

November 18, 2009

Q. What is the H1N1 compared to the regular flu and is H1N1 deadlier than Ebola? - Shawn, Latexo, Texas ...more

November 11, 2009

The Highlands County Health Department has received enough 2009 H1N1 Vaccine to hold vaccination clinics for students at the local schools. ...more

November 11, 2009

I am not one of those people who, upon hearing the description of some exotic disease, suddenly twitch with several applicable symptoms. Hypochondria and illness-envy are not among my personality quirks. ...more

November 4, 2009

Two more swine flu-related deaths have been reported in Hillsborough County. A 47-year-old woman died Sept. 16, and a 39-year-old man died Sunday. The woman had underlying medical conditions, the county health department said, while the man did not. They are the seventh and eighth people to die in Hillsborough County whose deaths were linked to swine flu. ...more

September 26, 2009

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias says he has swine flu and has been quarantined at home with a fever and sore throat. ...more

August 11, 2009

Leah Mitchell sat in the padded seats in the Mitchell gymnasium Wednesday night, devouring a cup of ice. ...more

October 4, 2008

Firefighters are working to cap a leaking tank of sulfur dioxide at a wastewater treatment plant in Gibsonton. ...more

August 22, 2008