Swine flu kids getting faster drug treatment. More than 80 percent of U.S. children severely ill with H1N1 flu have been treated swiftly with antiviral drugs, a trend that could be saving lives, U.S. health officials said on Friday. [News Source]

Review shows safety of H1N1 vaccine, officials say. An extensive review of adverse effects from the swine flu vaccine indicates that the vaccine is safe, with side effects no different from those of seasonal flu vaccines, health officials reported. [News Source]

Flu sends more Alaska Native Americans to hospital. Scientists and indigenous communities have been paying close attention to H1N1 rates among Inuit, American Indians and native Alaskans because of memories of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which wiped out entire villages. [News Source]

Don’t call it ’swine flu,’ farmers implore. Like many pork producers across the heartland, hog farmer David Moody has spent months railing against the term "swine flu," which he says has caused so much fear that the bottom has fallen out of the pork market. [News Source]