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French authorities said yesterday they were calling in the army's health services to meet a surge in demand for vaccinations against swine flu, which has killed 30 people in the country. Mass vaccination centres opened on November 12 but "since...

PARIS (Xinhua) -- The number of persons infected with A/H1N1 flu has passed 2.7 million, the French influenza surveillance system reported on Wednesday. Within a week, French population infected with A/H1N1 flu has increased 712,000 on the mainland, totaling 2,726,000...

ANKARA, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- A total of 161 people died in Turkey from the A/H1N1 virus, according to a statement released Thursday by the Turkish Health Ministry on its Web site. The Health Ministry also announced that 243 people...

More than a million people at high risk from swine flu have been vaccinated in the UK, according to British government estimates out today. About a million people in England and thousands more in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have...

Melbourne University scientists say kangaroos have a unique ability to repair their sun-damaged DNA. The marsupials have an enzyme not found in humans called photolyase and researchers Linda Feketeova and Uta Wille say understanding how the enzyme repairs damaged DNA...

The number of confirmed deaths for the week ended November 26 were 21, three higher than the week before and two higher than the previous high a fortnight ago. However at the same time the overall number of people catching...

Three more swine flu patients have died, taking the total number of deaths linked to the virus to 46, it has emerged. An adult from the Lothian area, who had no other health conditions, was one of the fatalities. And...

A 46-year-old man with no underlying medical conditions is Nova Scotia's sixth death related to the swine flu virus. Nova Scotia is deciding whether to include tranquillizers and sleeping pills in the list of drugs it tracks under a prescription...