There was no swine-flu vaccine, so government turned to the drug industry for help.
V. and Ebola viruses, in the nineteen-eighties, and the swine-flu scare a few years back.
But first he gave me the swine-flu press release that his staff had produced the night before.
As commentators quickly pointed out, the President during the first swine-flu outbreak was a Republican, Gerald Ford.
After the swine-flu crisis of 2009 -- when some cruise ships diverted routes from Mexican ports that had no reported cases to American ones that did -- travel bounced back a bit last year.
Since May, China has been checking people arriving from countries where cases of H1N1 -- also known as swine flu -- have been reported.
"So it would also not be surprising if there were deaths with swine flu -- even if it had the pattern of seasonal flu, " he said.
However, the CDC's Web site is still largely "swine"-centered, and the media continue to discuss "swine flu" -- much to the dismay of the hog industry.
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There were 457 reported and confirmed swine flu-related deaths across the UK between the outbreak in April last year and March this year.
None of the school's cases of swine flu -- also called H1N1 -- has proven fatal or resulted in a hospitalization, he said, and none of the reported cases has been confirmed.
The end result is a virus with the exterior proteins of the H1N1 swine flu -- so the immune system recognizes it -- but with the inner mechanics -- the fast-growth ability -- of X-157.
The National Public Health Service (NPHS) said not all of these people would have swine flu and not everyone with flu-like symptoms would contact their GP.
In Devon, health experts are attempting to contain a flu outbreak by shutting a school attended by Britain's youngest swine flu patient - a 12-year-old girl.
Nevertheless, the last four pandemics - the Spanish Flu that began in 1918, the Asian Flu of 1957, the Hong Kong Flu of 1958 and the swine flu of 2009 - were all preceded by periods of La Nina conditions.
Since mid-April, when swine flu was discovered, the CDC has tallied 522 deaths in the nation.
If the swine flu pandemic of 2009-10 was part of this pattern, the crossing of viral strains must have had something to do with birds as well as pigs.
An NHS spokesman said the two new swine flu cases in London - a 23-year-old man from Islington and a 29-year-old man from Westminster - were also being successfully treated at home.
He said the county, where the CDC had confirmed 10 cases of swine flu by Tuesday, sees more than 1, 000 flu-related deaths every year.
Indicators of swine flu are not unlike those for regular old run-of-the-mill flu.
Except for hospitalized patients, others with flu-like symptoms are not being tested to confirm they have swine flu, since "virtually all of the influenza that's circulating right now in the United States is the 2009 H1N1 strain, " Schuchat said.
The paper cites the continued deferral of water charges as well as swine flu and civil service back-pay.
Chief Medical Officer for Wales Dr Tony Jewell said up to 30% of the population could catch swine flu over the next 12-18 months.
The 91 confirmed cases in the United States includes the country's first swine flu fatality: a 23-month-old child visiting from Mexico who died Monday at a Houston, Texas, hospital.
The chairman of the BMA's general practitioner's committee, Dr Laurence Buckman, said doctors always have to balance the risk of major complications from swine flu with the potential side-effects of anti-virals.
In London, a hospital spokesman said a British Airways crew member developed flu-like symptoms during a flight from Mexico City and was tested for swine flu, but the results came back negative.
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The WHO raised the alert to the second highest level of five on Wednesday after a Mexican child died while on a visit to the US state of Texas - the first death from the swine flu outside Mexico.
Scientists say symptoms of swine flu in humans appear to be similar to those produced by standard, seasonal flu - fever, cough, sore throat, body aches and chills.
She added that, for the majority of people, swine flu was a "mild, self-limiting, often unpleasant infection but nonetheless the vast majority recover".
As of July 31, the total number of victims killed by the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, stood at 1, 154 -- an increase of 338 since WHO's previous update on July 27.
Already, some Southeastern states -- particularly Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida -- have been hit hard by the swine flu virus, also known as 2009 H1N1 influenza, perhaps because schools opened earlier there, she said.
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