Suspended flu jab caused fits in 67 kids. Doctors have reported febrile convulsions in at least 67 young children after the seasonal flu jab, as health authorities scramble to find data on how many Australian children were vaccinated before last week's ban. [News Source]

One year later: 5 lessons from the H1N1 pandemic. It was a year ago that the term "H1N1" entered the American consciousness, stamped in 72-point tabloid type. Health officials are now under fire for over-hyping what seemed like a harmless bug. So, was H1N1 much ado about nothing? [News Source]

Vaccine fever in Oz: Is the risk real? Just when you thought the swine flu fuss had died down, there is a new vaccine scare: 55 children under five in Australia have had fever and convulsions within 72 hours of getting seasonal flu vaccine. [News Source]

Humanity’s fight against Nature. An unpredictable threat from Nature that respects no borders, sparks widespread economic disruption, public eruptions of anger and political heat: much connects this month’s volcanic ash cloud from Iceland and the swine flu pandemic. [News Source]

Queensland health officials withheld flu death details. Queensland health officials claimed they were unaware of any deaths related to the seasonal flu vaccine, despite launching an investigation two weeks ago into the death of a two-year-old who was immunised the day before. [News Source]

Child’s death linked to flu vaccine. Australia's chief medical officer is urging medical staff and parents to immediately report any adverse reactions in children to the seasonal flu vaccine after a two-year-old Brisbane girl died 12 hours after she was given the vaccine. [News Source]

One year later, five lessons from the swine flu outbreak. Last April, a strange new virus was sickening and killing patients in Mexico. A year later, the U.S. tally from H1N1 stands at 60 million sickened and 12,270 dead, including 1,270 children. Today, swine flu's most potent legacy is the valuable lessons it can teach. [News Source]

The ‘killer fungus’: Should we be scared? Genetic analyses has revealed that two strains of C. gattii, a fungus that typically lives in trees and soil, has become hypervirulent. The news reports have managed simultaneously to raise the alarm about the new bug while warning people off undue hysteria. [News Source]

1 year after swine flu, Mexicans split on response. After swine flu proved far less lethal than feared, opinion has divided on whether the epidemic was a valuable test-run that left the world better prepared to handle a more lethal avian flu pandemic, or an episode that left the public jaded and weary. [News Source]

La Gloria, swine flu’s ground zero, is left with legacy of anger. In La Gloria, swine flu remains a divisive issue, bound up with simmering anger over a massive network of US-owned industrial pig farms in the area. [News Source]

Scotland racks up £55m swine flu bill. In an interview with The Scotsman, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon revealed 93,000 doses of antiviral drugs had been handed out in Scotland, with more than 730,000 people vaccinated against the H1N1 virus. [News Source]

1976 shot may protect against modern swine flu. People who got immunized against the 1976 "swine flu" epidemic that never happened may have benefited from the shots after all -- they may have been protected from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu strain. [News Source]