Swine Flu Just Isn’t Bringing Home the Bacon (The Motley Fool) As much hype as the avian flu and headed in the same direction. [News Source]

Cairo’s air quality among the worst in the world. With a population of 18 million, the rapid growth of the Egyptian capital has outstripped services and damaged natural resources: the Nile is badly polluted and air quality is consistently ranked among the worst in the world. [News Source]

Swine flu vaccine plentiful in the U.S. Available doses of the vaccine against pandemic H1N1 influenza will top 100 million in the United States by today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday. [News Source]

WHO not ready to declare H1N1 pandemic over; U.S. officials urge vaccination. With swine flu cases continuing to mount in many countries, it remains far too early to declare the H1N1 pandemic over, a World Health Organization official said Thursday. [News Source]

Assessment and thanks as flu wave ebbs in U.S. The federal health secretary claims that it is time to “focus on the next phase” of the virus and urges all to get vaccinated. [News Source]

Swine flu vaccine recall no cause for alarm, experts say. Like lead-painted Thomas the Tank Engine toys or ground beef contaminated with E. coli bacteria, the swine flu vaccine is now the subject of a mass recall. [News Source]

The novel H1N1 influenza. For years, scientists have been warning about the potential for an influenza pandemic on the order of the 1918 Spanish flu. But the pandemic that erupted last spring looks nothing like the one health officials have been preparing to combat. [News Source]