ET The Associated Press The World Health Organization has ruled out swine flu vaccine as a reason for the death of 41 people who had received the flu shot. WHO vaccines chief Marie-Paule Kieny said Thursday that investigations are continuing...
EU experts say some countries 'ambushe' by H1N1 Some countries have been "ambushed" by sudden severe outbreaks of disease and death from the H1N1 flu pandemic, and have gone over the top in their response, a European flu specialist said...
The research – requested by regulators and keenly awaited by governments tackling the current H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic – should ease international concern about the provision of both vaccines and help accelerate vaccination programmes. It comes at a time when...
As the number of people with swine flu rises fast, the authorities have been defending their immunisation plan which began this week for at-risk groups. Up to 27 per cent of the general public are expected to get vaccinated. The...
U.N. vaccine stockpile for yellow fever, the WHO statement said. France's Sanofi-Aventis, Brazil's Biomanguinhos and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar are the three suppliers of yellow fever vaccine pre-qualified by the WHO for U.N.-wide use. Yellow fever infects 206,000 people...
There is a good news for Swine Flu effected people when WHO officials announed that The first Vaccines to combat H1N1 swine flu should be approved and ready for use in some countries from September, "We are on track in...
Geneva :: Switzerland
| updated Sun Nov 15 17:33:30 -0800 2009
| health-news
This two-year extension will save thousands of lives," said Robin Gorna, IAS Executive Director. "While this decision is very welcome, it is nevertheless a band-aid measure, not a long-term solution. External funding cannot prop up Russia's HIV response forever.
The situation of the diabetes threat in developing countries is particularly worrying because of the rapid increase of morbidity of the disease due to lifestyle changes and environmental factors, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) expert says. "The problem is...
Countries can chose from stronger measures like school closures that may slow the spread of swine flu in the beginning, but the disease will continue to spread anyway, a World Health Organization spokesman said Wednesday. Spokesman Gregory Hartl noted that...
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