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Laboratory workers are hoping to provide faster diagnosis of infectious organisms thanks to New Zealand's first sealed-off lab based in a hospital.

Scientists who created a more deadly strain of bird flu have temporarily stopped their research amid fears it could be used by bioterrorists.

Scientists who created a more deadly strain of bird flu have temporarily stopped their research amid fears it could be used by terrorists.

Chinese health authorities say the latest bird flu virus that killed a 39-year-old bus driver in the southern city of Shenzhen over the weekend is not yet transmissible between humans.

State media in China report a man has died of bird flu a week after being admitted to hospital with a fever in the southern province of Guangdong.

A federal government agency in the United States has asked two scientific journals not to reveal how to make a deadly version of a bird flu virus.

The number of animals being used for research in New Zealand decreased by 13% last year.

The Director of Public Health is defending the handling of the swine flu pandemic, despite a critical article by a leading medical journal.

Health Minister Tony Ryall says New Zealand is well prepared for a second wave of swine flu, which could occur earlier than normal for the usual surge of winter flu.

Health officials in Britian are investigating a case in which a strain of swine flu resistant to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu has been transmitted from one person to another.

The New Zealand Herald reports that immigration officers have given police fresh information on National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi's alleged involvement in an immigration scam.

More than 60 pre-school and secondary students are in isolation after two Christchurch children tested positive for swine flu.

Swine flu has been declared a global pandemic, at the highest level of the World Health Organisation's alert scale.

A student who returned to Vietnam from the United States has been confirmed as having the H1N1 influenza virus, the first case of swine flu in the Southeast Asian country.

A third of the world's population could be infected by swine flu in the next year, a top United Nations health official said on Thursday, urging Asian governments to stay alert for a potentially wider…

An American Samoa health team boarded Monday night's Hawaiian Air flight to check on arriving passengers for swine flu. This is the start of the territory's border surveillance in response...

Mexico's flu outbreak appeared to be stabilizing on Saturday, as officials said hospitals were seeing fewer new cases of people with symptoms from the new swine flu virus and cut the estimated death…

Egypt has ordered the slaughter of every pig herd in the country as a precaution against swine flu. Egypt has been hard hit by the H5N1 bird flu virus.

None of the five transit passengers in isolation at Middlemore Hospital with suspected swine flu is seriously ill, says the Ministry of Health.

The presence of swine flu in New Zealand has been confirmed, say health officials.

European shares ended higher on Monday as pharmaceutical companies gained on hopes of increased demand for vaccines for swine flu.