The Health Protection Agency this afternoon confirmed that 230 suspected cases of aH1N1 Swine Flu in the UK are currently waiting for laboratory confirmation or exclusion. This is an increase from 78 cases 24 hours ago.

The number of confirmed cases has…

The Department of Health has today launched a freephone public helpline for information and advice about aH1N1 Swine Flu.

The number is:

0800 1 513 513

As predicted on this site, the World Health Organisation has been forced to raise its influenza pandemic alert level to Phase 5.

Phase 5 is characterized by human-to-human spread of the virus into at least two countries in one WHO region.…

On 27 April 2009, the World Health Organisation raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from the phase 3 to phase 4.

There are 6 phases in the alert system. Phase 1 means there is no threat, while Phase 6 means…

This is the Health Protection Agency’s “Algorithm for the management of returning travellers and visitors from countries affected by swine influenza A/H1N1 presenting with febrile respiratory illness: recognition, investigation and initial management” (WHO PANDEMIC ALERT PHASE 4), updated 28 April…

The first fatality from Swine Flu outside Mexico has been reported. It is a 23-month-old child in Houston, Texas, USA.

Very little information about the case is available at present. We do not know how the child contracted the disease or…

Welcome to Pandemic2009.org, a website dedicated to the evolving Swine Flu outbreak of April 2009.

My name is Dr Mandar Marathe. I am an Emergency Physician in England.

Until the morning of Saturday 25 April 2005 I had never heard of Swine…