Swine flu: health experts ’surprised’ by spread of virus in the UK. One of the world's most respected influenza scientists said today that health officials had been surprised by the spread of swine flu. [News Source]

Flu strains circulate for years before becoming a pandemic. The three pandemic flu strains of the 20th century, which killed millions, may have circulated in a precursor form for years before cutting their deadly swath. The finding could give flu detectives today a clue for where to watch for future outbreaks... [News Source]

Monument to an age when our leaders went off their heads. Seduced by La-La Land promises of the wind power lobby. [News Source]

Swine flu could paralyse country, Whitehall is told. A Whitehall meeting of emergency services and business chiefs has been told that more than a third of Britain's businesses have no response plans at all for dealing with the pandemic. [News Source]

Swine flu could paralyse country, Whitehall is told. A Whitehall meeting of emergency services and business chiefs has been told that more than a third of Britain's businesses have no response plans at all for dealing with the pandemic. [News Source]

Swine flu pandemic possible in pigs. German scientists are warning of a pig pandemic after tests suggested the swine flu can pass from humans to hogs and then infect a whole herd. [News Source]

Straight from the pig’s mouth: Swine research with swine influenzas. If the novel H1N1 virus behaves like its ancestors, humans may have a rough road ahead, especially if it takes hold on hog farms. [News Source]

Tamiflu-resistant swine flu not spreading: WHO. Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu does not appear to be spreading in a sustained or worrisome way, a World Health Organisation official said today. [News Source]

Lack of biodiversity may make us sicker. With ecological collapse, the rapid proliferation of disease agents is only half of the gruesome picture; the other is the demise of nonthreatening species... [News Source]

A shot at a universal flu vaccine. Protection from the swine flu, bird flu, and other viruses may evolve from one researcher's recent discovery. [News Source]

Hong Kong finds first case of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1. Only two other cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 have been found so far, in Denmark and Japan. The virus was identified during the health department's routine sensitivity test of HSI virus to oseltamivir and zanamivir. [News Source]

So what happens next? While we are staying in bed and calling up the flu line for our drugs, people will quietly die in large numbers elsewhere in the world. We will never know the full death toll. What we can be sure of is that this strain of flu will not go away. You don't stop flu - you learn to live with it. [News Source]