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A 2-year-old girl died on Thursday only three days after receiving the swine flu vaccine in the Rambam hospital in Haifa, despite Health Ministry regulations stating that the vaccine should not be given to children below the age of three...

According to the Health Ministry, the death was not related to the vaccination. It should be noted, however, that the swine flu vaccination is not recommended for children under the age of three. (Meital Yasur-Beit Or) A two-year-old toddler from...

Slovenian health authorities say a 77-year-old woman was hospitalised when her heart stopped minutes after she received a H1N1 flu shot. Health Minister Borut Miklavcic said late on Thursday that authorities are still investigating whether the patient's heart problem was...

Health authorities yesterday declared that a swine flu vaccine was safe for infants aged between 6 and 36 months, as thousands of citizens continued to visit inoculation centers around the country to get their shots. As authorities step up efforts...

Forget stampedes, fires and terrorist attacks. The big fear this year concerning the Hajj, the annual millions-strong pilgrimage to Mecca, is swine flu. Swine flu has already killed four pilgrims this year, Saudi Arabia's health ministry announced Saturday, almost a...

The association said criticisms that the vaccine was unsafe and unneeded, were “scientifically unfounded.” Last week, the World Health Organization data showed that around 6,750 people had died from swine flu since the virus was first uncovered in Mexico and...

H1N1 Vaccine is on the way to all of the countries, this is what was given as a report from the head of the CDC in US last week. The disease is becoming less dangerous and fatal, the vaccine is...

Four pilgrimage peoples died on swine flu in Saudi Arabia Event the Government of Saudi Arabia give a strict warning to all pilgrimage peoples whose should get a flu vaccinations before entering to Jeddah, and Mecca, Arab Saudi, today about...