SWINE FLU IN ALABAMA

Latest news on the outbreak of swine flu in Alabama

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A 34-year-old man in Santa Rosa County, Fla. -- just east of Alabama and bordering Alabama to the north -- has died from the H1N1 flu, the Santa Rosa health department reported. Full story »

Swine flu vaccinations at schools are almost complete for students in Madison County. Full story »

Health officials still urge everyone to get vaccinated Full story »

MONTGOMERY -- The state health officer said Friday the swine flu has claimed the lives of at least 40 Alabamians, but it's no longer considered a statewide infection. Full story »

Both types of flu shots, regular seasonal flu and H1N1, will be offered. Full story »

Mobile County will begin second vaccination round Monday. Full story »

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Cases of the swine flu appear to be tailing off in Alabama, though state health officials say there is still widespread H1N1 activity in the state and that residents need to be cautious. Full story »

The vaccine was previously restricted to groups such as pregnant women and the elderly, groups at higher risk of getting H1N1, also called swine flu. Full story »

The woman, who was not identified, had been hospitalized in Pensacola since Dec. 1 and died there Monday, according to David Mann, a spokesman for the Mobile County Health Department. She had underlying medical conditions, health officials said.  Full story »

About 10,000 believed to have died from disease Full story »

Wanda Hannon, supervisor of health and social services for Mobile's 63,000-student system, said she was surprised that more parents didn't sign up their children for the free vaccine. "I think because the cases have fallen off here people aren't taking it as seriously," Hannon said. "They are seeing this as something we are doing after the fact." Full story »

There were wary eyes but no tears Tuesday as 11 pupils at the Southwest Alabama Regional School for the Deaf and Blind received a nasal mist form of the swine flu vaccine. The vaccines there were among the first to be given at schools in the Mobile area. Full story »

Students at four Mobile public schools received the vaccine, which guards against the H1N1 strain of flu. About 65 students had permission from their parents to be inoculated Tuesday, school officials said. More school-based clinics begin Friday in Mobile. Students at public elementary schools in Baldwin County will get the flu mist Thursday and Friday. Full story »

Six school clinics in Mobile County were postponed because the Alabama Department of Public Health sent out permission paperwork in only two languages: English and Spanish. The six schools "had too many different languages," said Wanda Hannon, supervisor of health and human services for the school system, which is Alabama's largest. Full story »