The World Health Organisation's emergency committee intends to declare an end to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, Bloomberg News reports.

The swine flu pandemic is as severe as influenza pandemics in 1957 and 1968 and remains a threat, especially to healthy young adults, a leading health expert says.

Pregnant women in New Zealand and Australia who had pandemic H1N1 flu were 13 times more likely to become critically ill and be admitted to hospital, researchers said on Friday.

Australian researchers have found a way to predict whether a person's dose of swine flu is likely to turn life threatening, in a globally significant development.

At least 12,220 deaths from swine flu have been formally confirmed around the globe but the pandemic appears to be declining, the World Health Organisation says.

US President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have received their swine flu jabs.

Five people died from swine flu during hajj, a relatively small number considering the event is the largest annual gathering in the world and is seen as an ideal incubator for the virus.

A panda research centre in northwestern China has been closed to visitors as a precaution to protect the endangered species from catching swine flu.

The number of swine flu deaths in Europe has doubled almost every two weeks since the middle of October with 169 people dying of the virus in the past week.

Forget cookies and milk. US Santas want the swine flu vaccine.

Moldova's army is feeding its soldiers onions and garlic to help them ward off swine flu.

More than half of Britons being offered vaccination against pandemic H1N1 flu are turning it down because they fear side-effects or think the virus is too mild to bother

Criminal gangs are making millions of dollars out of the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling fake flu drugs over the internet, a web security firm said.

An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with an electronic holy water dispenser.

US health officials say that 4000 or more Americans are likely to have died from swine flu - about four times the estimate they've been using.

Standing in the middle of a long queue at Jeddah airport, Mahdi Sharif is one of millions of Muslims waiting to enter Saudi Arabia to start the annual haj pilgrimage despite a global outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus.

Reuters

A cat in the United States has tested positive for H1N1 swine flu, the first time a cat has been diagnosed with the new pandemic strain.

Urging citizens not to panic, Ukraine has closed the nation's schools for a week to avoid the spread of swine flu and suggested nightclubs, cinemas and food markets also shut.

Reuters

US President Barack Obama has declared 2009 H1N1 swine flu a national emergency, the White House said at the weekend.

The number of swine flu cases has doubled in England in the last week and the number of people to have died after contracting the virus has also increased.