INDIANAPOLIS #8212; Fewer than 11 percent of Indiana residents have been vaccinated for swine flu, and health officials are still encouraging people to receive the shots even though the state hasn't seen any deaths from the illness since mid-February.

A GRIEVING couple have urged other parents to vaccinate their children against deadly swine flu after discovering their little boy had died from the illness.

Ahmedabad, Mar 13 : Swine flu, which spread in an epidemic form since August last year, has so far claimed 300 lives in Gujarat, where as many as 1497 H1N1 positive cases were detected, official sources said today.

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Swine flu has claimed at least 16,713 lives around the world since it was first uncovered in Mexico and the United States last April, the World Health Organisation said Friday.