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HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Charles Ericsson, head of
clinical infectious disease at the University of Texas Medical School in
Houston, spoke to HealthDay about what scientists know right now
about the swine flu outbreak:

HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) — The bones and muscles of the
lower body appear to be more vulnerable to injury in obese children than
their lighter peers, a new study suggests.

HealthDay - SATURDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) — The swine flu continued to
spread across the United States on Saturday, as federal health officials
reported there are now 160 confirmed cases in 21 states, with 13
hospitalizations and one death.

Reuters - Mexico’s swine flu outbreak appeared to be easing on Saturday with a decrease in serious cases, the government said, but world health officials warned the unpredictable virus could still become a pandemic.

AP - Mexico reported three new deaths from the swine flu epidemic Saturday and urged citizens not to let their guard down against a virus that has killed 19 in people in Mexico and is spreading across Asia and Europe.

AP - Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and government officials:

AFP - Mexico has said its H1N1 flu outbreak appeared to be “in a stabilization phase”, as it tried to mitigate the economic cost of the crisis, joining Canada and the United States in hitting out at pork boycotts.

AFP - Mexico has raised its overall confirmed flu toll to 473 cases, broken down as 19 deaths and 454 infected patients, Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova has said.

AP - About a third of the confirmed U.S. cases of swine flu are people who had been to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there, a federal health official said Saturday.

AFP - The World Health Organisation has asked Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche to deploy emergency stockpiles of its antiviral drug Tamiflu in response to the swine flu outbreak, Roche said in a statement Saturday.