JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - A new study is out about the H1N1 Swine flu and it concludes the strain is mild. The CDC reports symptoms and complications from the H1N1 virus are about the same as or milder than the seasonal flu. The main difference last year was who got swine flu.

According to U.S. research presented Tuesday, infection from the 2009 swine flu pandemic presented a lower risk of serious complications than other recent strains of the flu. Researchers at Wisconsin's Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation said that an analysis of influenza cases in the Midwestern U.S. state of Wisconsin showed infected individuals were younger than in earlier strains, but ...

The death toll due to swine flu in the district since January has risen to nine, following the death of a 35-year-old woman in KS Kopp village in Ramdurg taluk.

More children and young adults were hospitalized as a result of pandemic H1N1 influenza than is normal for seasonal flu, but that was simply because those groups were disproportionately infected, not because the symptoms were worse, researchers said Tuesday. The pandemic flu, commonly known as swine flu, did cause more pneumonia than seasonal flu, but overall the symptoms were about the same ...

A US study of flu cases in adults and children living in Wisconsin concluded that the risk of serious complications from 2009 H1N1 swine flu was no higher than the risk of serious complications from recent seasonal flu strains. You can read about the study in the 8 September issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA...

Not all pain caused by the flu is physical. The Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit confirmed Tuesday that the so-called swine flu pandemic of 2009 was a non-event. However, the fizzle was expensive and more often than not a logistical and organizational nightmare.[...]

Coimbatore, Sept 8 (PTI) Swine flu claimed the life of a 48-year-old man at a hospital here.