Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Alabama is the last state in the U.S. where swine flu cases continue to be widespread more than eight months after the initial outbreak of the illness, health authorities reported.

Swine flu infections continue to drop and only one state — Alabama — was reporting widespread cases last week.

Swine flu infections continue to drop and only one state — Alabama — was reporting widespread cases last week.

The government makes plans to offload millions of swine flu vaccine doses amid predictions a pandemic "third wave" is unlikely.

Swine flu has killed at least 12,799 people worldwide since it first emerged in Mexico in March 2009, the World Health Organisation said Friday.

PEOPLE will be able to get medication to fight swine flu closer to home when a new pick-up centre in created.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - State health officials say three more people died this week from swine flu.

Because a small number of swine flu cases continue to be reported weekly, public health officials Thursday downgraded the flu activity level in the state to "sporadic."

A Sequoyah County man whose September death has been linked to swine flu has brought the total number of Oklahoma deaths from the new virus to 41, according to a state Health Department weekly report.

Swine-flu vaccinations will be offered at the Ridgefield Community Center on Jan. 16 and Jan. 23, and in West New York on Jan. 18. Appointments must be made for the sessions in Ridgefield, which run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.