The daily H1N1 question

What’s going on in the rest of the world?

Come back daily for answers to your questions from André Picard, the Globe's public health reporter, on the H1N1 virus.

Sheila Garcia, 3, has a mask put on her head before visiting a patient at the hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. on Oct. 19, 2009.
State of conflusion

The new flu symptom for parents: Who stays home?

Families are under pressure as they decide which parent gets flu duty. It may all come down to: Whose job is more important?

Andre Picard
André Picard's Second Opinion

Forget poppies – vets deserve flu vaccine

These aging warriors and their contemporaries are virtually the last in line for the H1N1 vaccine

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H1N1 cases across Canada

A big-picture look at hospitalizations and deaths by province/territory

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Do you feel health authorities have done a good job educating the public about the H1N1 vaccine?

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Fighting H1N1
A mother's H1N1 diary: ‘I wield Kleenex like a ninja'

A day out in the big, germy world for a mom and her two-year-old twins as she wards off paranoia, irrational fear and the flu

In Pictures
Q&A: Are you getting the H1N1 shot?

Why Rick Mercer is planning on getting vaccinated and Jann Arden isn't.

JANN ARDEN, musician: “I’m not [getting the shot, because] of all the reading and stuff that I’ve done. I’m coming into a period of time where I meet probably 100 people every night and shake their hands and have a picture taken with them. But having said that, I’m a chronic hand washer. I don’t think I’d be kissing strangers on the cheek or anything of the sort ... I’m not in that really touchy age group which is teenagers kind of up to 35, 38 and then the elderly, so I don’t really fit the profile. I’m 47 and I’m just not afraid of that. Am I crazy?”
Facts & Arguments Essay
My 10-month-old got H1N1, and now I feel better

Reaction to swine flu seems like a horror movie. But when my son came down with it, I actually felt calmer

Tabatha Southey
On swine-flu conspiracy theories

Theories spring from a society so skeptical that it's actually gullible

Your H1N1 travel questions answered

The info you need to travel safely

Globe Essay
Fear's old struggle with vaccination

The alarm over H1N1 pales beside the battles over smallpox – especially in 19th-century Montreal

People wait in line to receive the H1N1 vaccine in Haltom City, Tex.
Christie Blatchford
Flu-shot skeptics weave a Web of lies

Don't believe everything you read online - especially when it tells you the swine-flu vaccine will paralyze you, can 'facilitate mind control at a distance' or just isn't worth taking

Christie Blatchford
ROB Magazine Interactive
Scale of a pandemic

Tracking the human and economic costs of H1N1

Licensed Practical Nurse Elsabet Rahemeto prepares a dose of the swine flu vaccine for a patient in Phoenix on Saturday. Several Canadian provinces are set to roll out their own vaccinations programs this week.
Profile
The calm face at the centre of Canada's immunization campaign

David Butler-Jones on the delays that have tripped up delivery of the H1N1 vaccine, and why the country's response program is a success

Public health officer David Butler-Jones speaks at a news conference on H1N1 in Vancouver on Nov. 3, 2009.
Photogallery
A closer look at the H1N1 virus

Images from around the world on the fight to prevent the swine flu spread

An employee holds out a plush toy model of the H1N1 swine flu virus at the Newbury Comics store in Boston, Massachusetts October 16, 2009.
How companies are fighting H1N1

Workers are calling in sick, employment lawyers are swamped with calls; doctors urge employers not to demand sick notes

People sit in a waiting area for turn to be injected with the H1N1 flu vaccine at a clinic in Ottawa.