A new study from researchers at the UK Medical Research Council and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) projects that the severity of the H1N1 flu during the autumn-winter flu season in the US will likely be less than previously feared.

Reporting the death toll from the flu is always tricky because flu symptoms mimic other ailments and the flu makes other ailments worse, U.S. flu experts say. People die of heart attacks and pneumonias and so on who wouldn't have died if they hadn't been infected with influenza, Dr.

By HELEN BRANSWELL TORONTO (CP) - Decisive moves by authorities in several U.S.

Bird flu is likely to cross over into people again and again if it ever even once acquires the ability to pass from human to human, experts predicted on Monday.