Killer Goat Flu Appears in Netherlands (Novinite.com) There have been press reports of an alarming new epidemic that has struck the Netherlands. Following bird flu, then swine flu, now goat flu is causing panic. [News Source]

New Biological Route For Swine Flu To Human Infections (redOrbit) Image Caption: A mutation in the H1N1 influenza A virus, termed the SR polymorphism, enhanced replication of the virus in humans. (Image courtesy of NIGMS) [News Source]

Flu Vaccine Shortages In Developing Countries Could Destabilize Global Security, Says Former WHO Deputy Head (Medical News Today) "Flu vaccine shortages in developing nations may destabilize global security should the H1N1 [swine flu] virus become more deadly ⦠David Heymann, a former deputy head of the World Health Organization" said Monday, Bloomberg reports. Heyman acknowledged the H5N1 (bird flu) virus helped to bolster the preparedness of developed nations for H1N1, but said there remain gaps in the ability to ... [News Source]

Swine flu death toll at 10,000 since April. Federal health officials said Thursday that almost 10,000 people had died of swine flu since April, a significant jump from mortality numbers released last month. [News Source]

Swine flu has killed 10,000 US Americans since April. Swine flu has killed nearly 10,000 Americans, including 1,100 children and 7,500 younger adults, and infected one in six people in the United States since arriving last April, health officials said on Thursday. [News Source]

About 1 in 6 Americans hit with swine flu. Approximately 47 million Americans were sickened with swine flu from April to mid-November and 9,820 of them died, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, indicating the new virus spread widely before cresting last month. [News Source]

Britain: Swine flu less deadly than first thought. Swine flu is far less dangerous than originally feared, British officials said Thursday - about 100 times less lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu. [News Source]

Swine flu has hit about 1 in 6 Americans, CDC says. Nearly 10,000 people have died from H1N1, but that is a lower mortality rate than in regular flu seasons, the CDC chief says. What's different is that more children and adults under 50 have died. [News Source]

Swine flu less lethal than feared. The swine flu pandemic is "considerably less lethal" than feared, chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson says. A study led by Sir Liam found a death rate of just 0.026% in those infected, the British Medical Journal reported. [News Source]

UK study confirms H1N1 far less lethal than feared. H1N1 pandemic swine flu is far less lethal than feared, British scientists said on Wednesday, but public health officials should not be complacent in fighting it and vaccination campaigns should continue. [News Source]

Feds say 10,000 dead of H1N1 in USA. Swine flu has already infected 50 million Americans, killing 10,000, most of them children and younger adults, federal officials reported Thursday. [News Source]

AIDS: The Greatest Deadly Lie in the History of Medicine (Pravda) Mankind is facing a new threat of swine flu. A few years earlier, bird flu and SARS caused panic all over the world. AIDS has been on the top of the list of “scary” diseases for thirty years. [News Source]