BEIJING, March 12 (Bernama) -- People with chronic diseases, the obese, and pregnant women face a renewed threat of contracting deadly infection of A/H1N1 influenza as spring draws near, reports Xinhua news agency on Friday.

LOS ANGELES, March 11 (Bernama) -- The A/H1N1 flu virus is more likely to affect children once it spreads in a household setting, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, reports China's Xinhua news agency on Wednesday.

MEXICO CITY, March 3 (AFP) - Mexican officials said Wednesday they have confirmed the first mutation of the A(H1N1) flu virus in a girl who survived the infection.

A 22-year-old woman died of H1N1-related illness at the Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital (HUSM), Kubang Kerian, on Sunday.

GENEVA, Feb 23 (Bernama) -- World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have decided after Tuesday's assessment that it is still early to pronounce the A/H1N1 swine flu pandemic as having peaked in all parts of the world.

GENEVA, Feb 24 (AFP) - It is too early to say that the swine flu pandemic has peaked in all parts of the world, the World Health Organisation's emergency committee said here.

BEIJING, Jan 29 (AFP) - The Chinese government has denied that the swine flu vaccine was to blame for a number of miscarriages suffered by women who received the jab, state media reported Friday.

BEIJING, Jan 14 (AFP) - China's health ministry has urged vulnerable groups to get swine flu vaccinations or limit travel during the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year holiday due to the spread of the A(H1N1) virus.

GENEVA, Jan 9 (Bernama) -- The global death toll of the A(H1N1) pandemic influenza has risen to at least 12,799, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a latest update on Friday.

BEIJING, Jan 4 (AFP) -- China said Monday it had recorded 659 swine flu deaths in 2009, nearly all of them in the last two months of the year, and warned that the danger of mass outbreaks still existed in certain areas.