Countries should be ready for more serious H1N1 flu infections and more deaths from the newly discovered virus, World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan said on Friday.  The highly contagious strain must be closely monitored in parts of Asia, Africa and South America where the winter season is beginning in case it mixes with [...]

Chile’s health minister confirmed the country’s first case of the H1N1 flu virus in a news conference on Sunday. The person who contracted the flu was a 32-year-old Chilean woman who recently returned to Chile from the Dominican Republic, said Health Minister Alvaro Erazo. Earlier, a government source told Reuters that the woman was 25 [...]