The New Scientist magazine has created a timeline that traces the evolution of the H1N1 influenza from its beginnings in 1889 through September 2009.

In the eastern zone of El Salvador there have been reports of four patients with simultaneous infection of influenza A (H1N1) and classical dengue fever, confirmed by the Vice Minister of Health Eduardo Espinoza.

Currently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advice is to stay home for two days after fever symptoms subside, but researchers have found that the virus may still be in the nostrils of a infected person for a week or more and as long as 16 days after symptoms have abated.

An independent panel of the Department of Health warned ministers that plans to make the stockpiled drug widely available could do more harm than good, by helping the flu virus to develop resistance to the drug.

From PRO-MED:
Health officials raised the alarm about a strain of swine flu that is resistant to the Tamiflu treatment as the virus claimed more lives on Tuesday [4 Aug 2009], with Viet Nam reporting its first fatal case. India and South Africa both reported their first deadly cases of the A(H1N1) virus late Monday [3 [...]

Well, maybe “glad” is a little too strong in this case. Looks like there’s not going to be enough H1N1 influenza vaccine to go around, at least not in poorer and developing nations. There are problems with the process of making the vaccine to fight the novel strain of flu, and it appears manufacturers are [...]

From ProMed:
Contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico, federal agriculture officials now believe that it most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human. But they emphasized that there was no way to prove their theory and only [...]

Remarks of Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization delivered June 11, 2009
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Ladies and gentlemen,
In late April, WHO announced the emergence of a novel influenza A virus.
This particular H1N1 strain has not circulated previously in humans. The virus is entirely new.
The virus is contagious, spreading easily from one person to another, and [...]

From ProMed:
Some Australians may have been falsely diagnosed with human swine flu while others with the disease may have been sent home with a negative
result because the laboratory test used to identify the potentially deadly virus is only about 90 percent accurate.
So far more than 1,200 Australians have tested positive to swine flu. [New South [...]

From ProMed:
As of Friday, 29 May 2009, a total of 367 confirmed cases of human infection with a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus had been reported to Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW). Preliminary outbreak investigation report from National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan has provided important data on the effectiveness of [...]