Health, debt and hunger are huge threats to the continent’s stability

South Africa’s second swine flu death was confirmed in Bloemfontein on Saturday, amid media reports that the victim died from blood poisoning.

Saying the new H1N1 virus is ”unstoppable”, the World Health Organisation gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines

South Africa has identified the first case of the H1N1 flu virus in the country, the Department of Health said on Thursday.

The new H1N1 flu killed its first patient in Canada, making it the third country after Mexico and the United States to report a death from the virus.

A Texas woman with the new H1N1 flu died earlier this week, state health officials said, the second death outside of Mexico.

Mexico will resume normal business operations this week after easing its swine flu restrictions, but the global flu alert triggered a trade dispute.

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.