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- Timeline: Swine flu
- A chronology of the H1N1 outbreak.
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- Flu-virus prevalence comes under scrutiny
- Projects to monitor antibodies seek true extent of H1N1 infection.
- 24 November 2009
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- A healthy vision
- Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks exclusively to Nature.
- 22 October 2009
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- Flu virus behind infant pneumonia in poor countries
- Viral infection precedes an unexpectedly large proportion of childhood pneumonia cases.
- 5 October 2009
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- First swine flu death on the Galapagos
- Spread of virus shows islands no longer in evolutionary isolation.
- 8 September 2009
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- Pandemic flu: from the front lines
- Researchers describe the scientific and public-health challenges they face in battling the H1N1 virus.
- 2 September 2009
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- Boosting our best shot
- Charlotte Schubert looks at recent discoveries that could translate into a wider range of adjuvants and perhaps help provide future protection against diseases ranging from malaria to H1N1 'swine' flu.
- September 2009
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- Swine flu agitates the adjuvant debate
- September 2009
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- Straight talk with...Ian Lipkin
- Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, has helped identify close to 200 new viruses so far. Erica Westly spoke with Lipkin about how the viral discovery techniques he uses could help prevent future viral disease outbreaks, from swine flu to the unknown.
- September 2009
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- Pandemic vaccine enters clinical trials
- September 2009
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- China boosts pandemic surveillance
- But lack of screening could hamper efforts.
- 26 August 2009
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- Flu shot guidelines criticized
- Mathematical model suggests that US experts got their priorities wrong.
- 20 August 2009
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- Flu database rocked by legal row
- Dispute over ownership raises concerns among flu scientists.
- 12 August 2009
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- US puts flu vaccines on trial
- NIAID director Anthony Fauci explains testing strategy.
- 28 July 2009
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- Regulators face tough flu-jab choices
- Rich countries' pandemic strategies may cause vaccine shortages elsewhere.
- 21 July 2009
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- Flu furore hits Argentina
- Refusal to declare national emergency restricts pandemic measures.
- 14 July 2009
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- Swine flu shares some features with 1918 pandemic
- Exposure to one pandemic may protect against the other.
- 13 July 2009
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- Pandemic flu viruses brew for years before going global
- Monitoring more viral genes could provide early warning of dangerous outbreaks.
- 13 July 2009
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- Flu jabs urged for developing countries
- Move should spur demand for vaccines and keep production facilities running.
- 7 July 2009
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- Swine flu reaches into the lungs and gut
- Studies of ferrets reveal details of disease.
- 2 July 2009
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- Lawsuit puts flu-vaccine contract in doubt
- Biotech company sued by creditors
- 30 June 2009
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- The virus spy
- Yan Li talks about spotting the novel swine flu virus at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory.
- 19 June 2009
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- Patchy pig monitoring may hide flu threat
- Experts call for increased surveillance of animals.
- 16 June 2009
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- Flu pandemic underway
- Countries prepare for the long haul in combating novel H1N1 strain.
- 11 June 2009
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- Avian influenza aided readiness for swine flu
- Despite gains from threat of bird flu, pandemic preparedness is patchy.
- 10 June 2009
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- US ramps up swine flu protection
- New technologies may help boost H1N1 vaccine production.
- 3 June 2009
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- Flu vaccine makers upgrade technology — and pray for time
- The onset of winter in the southern hemisphere could determine whether the novel, swine-derived influenza A (H1N1) strain detected in Mexico in April will evolve into a full-fledged pandemic virus.
- June 2009
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- Computational tools evolve to reveal patterns in flu data
- When a new and suspicious strain of influenza emerges, authorities meticulously plan their public health response on the basis of how dangerous scientists think the strain is or could become.
- June 2009
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- Swine flu attention turns to the tropics
- New flu strains are more likely to arise in equatorial countries, where influenza is present the year round and surveillance is poor.
- 27 May 2009
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- Old seasonal flu antibodies target swine flu virus
- Lab results could explain why young patients are hardest hit by current H1N1 strain.
- 21 May 2009
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- Q&A: The virus grower
- Immunologist Doris Bucher talks about cultivating the swine flu virus.
- 14 May 2009
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- Q&A: Marie-Paule Kieny
- The vaccine research director of the World Health Organization, on swine flu.
- 13 May 2009
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- Vaccine decisions loom for new flu strain
- World Health Organization considers live attenuated vaccines for swine-associated H1N1 outbreak.
- 12 May 2009
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- Swine flu spread matches previous flu pandemics
- New analysis supports pandemic designation.
- 11 May 2009
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- US swine flu cases dissected
- An up-to-date analysis suggests the young may be particularly susceptible.
- 8 May 2009
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- How severe will the flu outbreak be?
- Epidemiologists race to pin numbers on the global H1N1 spread.
- 1 May 2009
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- Tests on H1N1 virus begin in UK
- Virologists hope to investigate how swine flu could mutate to become more deadly.
- 1 May 2009
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- Universities warned about swine flu threat
- Government agencies in the US and UK issue advisories over flu on campus.
- 1 May 2009
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- German virologist's race for swine flu test
- Christian Drosten talks to Nature about tackling the threat of a pandemic.
- 30 April 2009
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- Swine flu goes global
- New influenza virus tests pandemic emergency preparedness.
- 29 April 2009
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- Swine flu jumps continents
- Influenza virus spreads around the world.
- 27 April 2009
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- Did a Mexican archeologist die of swine flu?
- Felipe Solís, a prominent Mexican archaeologist and director of the country's National Museum of Anthropology, has died of complications from pneumonia. The Ministry of Health has denied initial reports that Solís had contracted swine flu.
- 27 April 2009
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- Swine flu spreads
- More than 80 people have died and more than 1,300 suspected cases exist in Mexico in the swine flu outbreak that has emergency-preparedness personnel swinging into action around the globe.
- 26 April 2009
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