WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (AFP) - People over the age of 50 who are hospitalized with swine flu are the group most likely to die from the illness, but (A)H1N1 flu remains a young person's illness, US researchers said Tuesday.

BEIJING, Oct 29 (AFP) - China has warned the country's battle against swine flu is "extremely grim" after infection levels spiked in some areas and a Beijing university student became the fourth person here to die of the virus.

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (AFP) - The United States will not donate swine flu vaccine to poor countries until at-risk Americans have been inoculated against H1N1, an official said Wednesday.

OTTAWA, Oct 27 (AFP) - The sudden death over the weekend of an otherwise healthy teenage boy after he contracted the swine flu prompted Canadian officials Tuesday to speed up A(H1N1) immunizations.

MOSCOW, Oct 27 (AFP) - Two Russian women died of swine flu, officials said on Tuesday, in the first deaths from the A(H1N1) virus confirmed by Moscow.

WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (AFP) - The United States will face a swine flu vaccine shortfall of 45 to 55 million doses by the end of the year but half of the population could still be vaccinated, a senior US official said Monday.

Malaysia will receive 78,000 doses of the of the 400,000 doses of anti-H1N1 vaccine ordered from Britain for front-liners in healthcare and high-risk group end of this month, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said today.

BEIJING, Oct 26 (AFP) - More than half of all Chinese do not plan to be vaccinated against swine flu because they are unsure about the safety of the shot, according to a survey by state media published Monday.

WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (AFP) - President Barack Obama declared swine flu a "national emergency" on Saturday, as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection and more than 1,000 deaths.

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (AFP) - The United States has seen "many millions of cases" of swine flu and more than 1,000 deaths -- or around a fifth of the world's total -- since the H1N1 outbreak began six months ago, a top health official said Friday.