LOS ANGELES - Actor Brad Pitt has been hospitalized with a flu-like illness. Pitt, 41, checked himself into an undisclosed Los Angeles area hospital Monday night complaining of flu-like symptoms, his publicist Cindy Guagenti said Tuesday.

A north Phoenix man in his 20s was reported as having the first confirmed flu case in Maricopa County on Oct. 19. Two days later, a Phoenix woman in her 90s became the county’s first death from flu-related complications. How bad will this flu season be? "It’s really difficult to make any predictions," said Arizona epidemiologist David Engelthaler.

A north Phoenix man in his 20s was reported as having the first confirmed flu case in Maricopa County on Oct. 19. Two days later, a Phoenix woman in her 90s became the county’s first death from flu-related complications. How bad will this flu season be? "It’s really difficult to make any predictions," said Arizona epidemiologist David Engelthaler.

Arizona's flu season is starting to kick into high gear, county health officials said Monday.

Senior citizens in Arizona have not been affected as much as younger people this flu season, statistics show. According to state figures, a third of the patients have been ages 19 to 49 (33 percent). The next largest group has been ages 5 to 18 (24 percent), followed by the very young, newborn to 4 years old (22 percent). More than three-quarters of cases have been influenza A, which includes the H1N1 strain. H3 is the most predominant subtype of lab-confirmed influenza this year.

With tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff in close proximity, Arizona's universities are taking steps to prepare for swine flu's next assault.

You are not invincible. Even if you're crazy enough to believe you can't get influenza, understand that you can spread the flu to other people. Even those you love. Even people who are at high risk for complications, like your newborn niece or your grandmother.

If you’ve just decided to get a flu shot, it may be too late.

WASHINGTON - South Carolina is in. Utah and Alabama, too. And Arizona is close. Some states aren’t waiting for an Aug. 1 deadline to seek help from the federal government in buying anti-flu medicine for a possible pandemic.

WASHINGTON - South Carolina is in. Utah and Alabama, too. And Arizona is close. Some states aren’t waiting for an Aug. 1 deadline to seek help from the federal government in buying anti-flu medicine for a possible pandemic.

The state health officials say the flu is still increasing in Arizona with a steep increase seen in the past two weeks.

Influenza is now “"widespread”" in Arizona, according to the latest report from the Arizona Department of Health Services.

February 16, 2005

WASHINGTON - The mysterious respiratory disease that has swept greyhound racetracks across the country and also afflicted pet dogs is a type of flu - an influenza strain that jumped from horses to dogs, researchers reported Monday.

East Valley school districts are preparing for the second wave of the H1N1 flu, expected to begin around the end of August. Up to a quarter of Maricopa County residents, mainly children, could get this newest strain of the flu, formerly known as swine flu.

There’s no way to avoid the fact that the flu is coming, but there’s still time to avoid the flu. It’s shaping up to be a typical season in Arizona, with the illness gradually taking hold the past few weeks and expected to swing into full bloom by early February and last into March.

Snowbirds and relatives have brought some undesirable holiday gifts: Sniffles, achy muscles, headaches, fever. The flu is making its way around Arizona.

Snowbirds and relatives have brought some undesirable holiday gifts: Sniffles, achy muscles, headaches, fever. The flu is making its way around Arizona.

Thomas Lucente: The ability of human beings to overreact never ceases to amaze me.

NEW ORLEANS -- Chinese authorities have quarantined New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, his wife and a security guard in Shanghai after another traveler on their flight from New Jersey exhibited suspected swine flu symptoms.

A stomach flu outbreak has sickened 58 teens and four coaches at a wrestling camp in Flagstaff that draws participants from all over the country.