A Texas woman with the new H1N1 flu died earlier this week, state health officials said, the second death outside of Mexico.
African nations are scrambling to prevent swine flu from reaching a continent already struggling with the burden of HIV/Aids and malaria.
Mexico will resume normal business operations this week after easing its swine flu restrictions, but the global flu alert triggered a trade dispute.
Mexico breathed easier on Monday in its fight against a deadly flu epidemic that may be retreating after a 10-day scare.
After days of alarm that had kept streets eerily quiet, the atmosphere in Mexico’s capital appeared more relaxed on Sunday.
Mexico’s flu outbreak appeared to be easing with a fall in serious cases, but world health officials warned the virus could still become a pandemic.
In a glint of good news for a world rattled by the threat of a flu pandemic, new data showed fewer people have died in Mexico than first thought.
As swine flu threatens South Africa, experts say the country does not have enough of the medicines necessary to contain an epidemic.
Egypt is to begin slaughtering 250 000 pigs on Saturday,despite the WHO saying there was no evidence the animals were transmitting swine flu.
Egypt on Thursday said its cull of 250 000 pigs was a general health measure rather than a precaution against swine flu.
Southern African countries have put a response plan in place to deal with possible swine flu cases, Health Minister Barbara Hogan said on Thursday.
Mexico’s president told citizens to stay home from Friday for a five-day partial shutdown of the economy.
Two suspected cases of swine flu have been reported in South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Wednesday.
Egypt is considering culling hundreds of thousands of pigs as a precautionary measure as swine flu nears the borders of the country.
Cabinet asked Health Minister Barbara Hogan on Wednesday to develop a campaign to educate South Africans about swine flu.
Germany confirmed its first three cases of swine flu on Wednesday, the eighth country where the virus has been found.
Airports have rushed to install temperature scanners to pick out the sick, but the swine flu virus is proving too clever for modern technology.
A global hunt for swine flu turned up new infections all around the world on Tuesday, and governments warned people to stay away from Mexico.
The South African government’s ”non-response” to the outbreak of swine flu was worrying, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday.
A new virus that has killed 149 people in Mexico was found further around the world on Tuesday and the specter of a pandemic began to hit air travel.
New Zealand and Israel confirmed cases of swine flu on Tuesday, the latest countries hit by a new strain that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico.
South Africans should not panic over swine flu, which is spreading in some parts of the world, the Health Department said on Tuesday.
Airlines suffered an 11,1% fall in passenger numbers in March, and swine flu stands to compound financial problems and suppress traffic even more.
Mozambique has placed its ports of entry on high alert and officials are looking out for any incidences of swine flu.
The Mexican swine flu, a genetic chimera probably conceived in the faecal mire of an industrial pigsty, suddenly threatens to give the world a fever.
The world’s top epidemiologists fought on Tuesday to curb the spread of a new strain of flu that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico.
Governments acted to stem a possible flu pandemic on Monday, as a virus that has killed 103 people in Mexico was confirmed to have reached Europe.
Governments around the world are on high alert for a swine flu pandemic as the death toll from the virus in Mexico rose to more than 100.