WHO to rewrite rules for declaring a pandemic. Bowing to pressure, the World Health Organization announced Friday that it would rewrite its rules for alerting the world to new diseases--meaning the swine flu circling the globe will probably never be declared a full-fledged pandemic... [News Source]

Feds to set aside $1B for swine flu vaccine. Federal health officials said Friday that they will set aside $1 billion to jump-start commercial development of a vaccine against the new H1N1 flu virus now spreading worldwide. The funding will be used to produce bulk supplies of two key components of a vaccine and to test them in humans. [News Source]

Feds to set aside $1B for swine flu vaccine. Federal health officials said Friday that they will set aside $1 billion to jump-start commercial development of a vaccine against the new H1N1 flu virus now spreading worldwide. The funding will be used to produce bulk supplies of two key components of a vaccine and to test them in humans. [News Source]

Eyes on the swine. The emergence of the new H1N1 flu strain has demonstrated the effectiveness of existing systems to watch for human flu outbreaks while also proving a long-standing theory that pigs could serve as mixing vessels for a pandemic virus. [News Source]

Tests of new flu virus suggests more are out there. The most complete analysis yet of the new H1N1 swine flu virus shows it must have been circulating undetected for years, most likely in pigs, which are clearly a potential source of human pandemics, researchers said on Friday. [News Source]

US moving closer to swine flu vaccine. Inching closer to a swine flu vaccine, the government is beginning to analyze two candidates for the key ingredient to brew one. [News Source]