The Texas Department of State Health Services on Friday recommended lifting restrictions on distribution of the swine flu vaccine.

The wait is over for everyone in Snohomish County who until now has been shut out of swine flu shots. Beginning today, anyone who wants the immunization, either the nasal spray or the shot, should be able to get it.

Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by federal health officials on Thursday.

Thousands of Army recruits in training have to line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays -- for mass inoculations of hundreds at a time against swine flu.

Indian paceman Shanthakumaran Sreesanth is suffering from swine flu and will miss Saturday's second and final Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka.

FRIDAY, Dec. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Swine flu infection rates continue to drop, U.S. health officials said Friday, with only 14 states reporting widespread H1N1 activity, down from 25 states last week and 48 states at the height of the outbreak in October.

New Hampshire health officials could decide as early as next week to make the swine flu vaccine available to the general public.

Thousands of Army recruits in training have to line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays — for mass inoculations of hundreds at a time against swine flu.

Health officials say winter flu is just starting to show up in the U.S. while swine flu infections continue to wane.

France remains the only western European nation where swine flu is rising as the pandemic sweeps eastwards across the northern hemisphere, the World Health Organisation said Friday.