National Health Ministry of Argentina reported that since August 1, there is people suffering from dengue in five provinces. Missions is the province which has major problems, with 50 patients.

The recent death of the young actress Brittany Murphy is the ‘hook’ to develop a dangerous computer virus.

In the town of Bedford Hills New York a dog of 13 years became the first affected by the influenza A virus in the United States.

The most important thing for pandemic preparedness is for the public to be knowledgeable, ready to take steps to avoid contracting the virus, avoid spreading the virus, and mitigate its effects as much as possible.

German police have confirmed they have discovered a farewell note written by the Germany national goalkeeper Robert Enke, who died on Tuesday after being hit by an express train near Hanover.

Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography.

A 22 year old who had been hospitalized last Thursday night in the Erill Hospital in Escobar, became another victim of Influenza A. This is the second case in less than a week, exposing a new outbreak of the epidemic in Argentina.

Germany’s Tommy Haas, former number 3 in the world ranking, has contracted Influenza A (H1N1), reported today the German newspaper “Bild” in its website.

A robot designed to help doctors diagnose swine flu has been unveiled at an exhibition in Japan. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Health authorities said today that Mexico is in “interim alert” because of a second outbreak of influenza A-H1N1, which involves the close down of some schools and measures of “social distancing”.

Autopsies on people who have died from the new pandemic H1N1 flu show this virus is different from seasonal influenza, even if it has not yet caused more deaths.

US drug regulators approved a swine flu vaccine on Tuesday, keeping officials on track to begin a mass vaccination campaign by next month, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.

Some of the brightest luminaries of our time give in-depth expositions of pandemic swine flu. With the help of Big Think’s pandemics experts, we’ve sorted through the chaos and put together a list of little-known facts about H1N1.

Scientists in the United States have decoded the genome structure of the virus that causes AIDS. The breakthrough should help develop strategies for combating the virus with new anti-viral drugs.

Dengue started to spread in Mexico from the tropic area to the centre of the country, which called for a medical care alert.

A patient admitted to hospital in Albacete two and a half weeks ago has become Spain’s seventh victim of the Swine Flu virus.

The ’swine flu’ (North American Influenza H1N1) trials will be conducted on some 600 adult and child volunteers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in South Australia.

Doctors at Malbrán Institute, said that the genetic code “has some differences” compared to that circulating in the United States and Mexico. This was explained this evening in a press conference by Elsa Baumeister, the scientist in charge of the investigation.

It was announced by the minister of Health of the Nation, Juan Manzur, after a meeting with his peers of 16 countries of the region.

Lemus said that “although it is a labor decision, with professional advice, we believe that it would be necessary to give an extra week of license for risk cases”. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)