The swine flu is less contagious than the novel viruses that have caused big world outbreaks in the past, new research suggests. If someone in your home has swine flu, your odds of catching it are ...

"We cannot say (patients are) contagious but they have the potential to be." De Serres and colleagues studied 43 people with confirmed H1N1 pandemic flu, as well as members of their households ...

Kids can be contagious for as long as 10 days. Despite the name, you can't catch swine flu from eating bacon, ham, or any other pork product. Yes. Without one it's hard to tell whether you have ...

Dr. Ohl answers the question: 'Is Swine Flu More Contagious Than Other Flus?' September 1, 2009 -- Question: Is swine flu more contagious than regular influenza? Answer: It does appear that swine ...

It was an H1N1 swine influenza ... Not so with influenza: flu can be very contagious before the individual carrier has any symptoms at all, much less a fever. Worse, some governments are banning ...

Outright panic over the swine flu has been averted so far ... you need reliable information to be more contagious than the disease itself, and you need the fear and stigma to be less contagious.

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a ...

Swine flu (H3N2) is different from the highly contagious avian flu (H5N1) that has been spreading through dairy and poultry farms in recent months. As of Aug. 1, there had been 27 dairy herds ...

A LocalCircles survey found that 54 per cent of households in Delhi reported cases of swine flu with symptoms like cough, sore throat, and body aches. This highly contagious respiratory infection ...

When it receives the sample, the agency says, it plans to look for possible mutations that may have made the virus more contagious or ... to previously detected swine flu infections in people ...