News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
Five drug companies are now increasing production of the vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, and 10 million more doses are expected next week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Saturday. President Barack Obama on Friday...
News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 month ago
Forty-eight U.S. states are now reporting widespread influenza activity while production delays continue to hamper distribution of the A/H1N1 flu vaccine across the country, a leading U.S. health official said on Friday. "The disease...
News Source: Trinidad Express
| about 1 month ago
A/H1N1 vaccines from Swiss pharmaceutical company, Novartis, said Minister of Health Jerry Narace. "The first shipment should come from Novartis. Pan American Health Organisation) about the other 260,000 doses," he said while speaking to the media at...
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
Even though the winter flu season has yet to begin, flu has now killed 114 children and teenagers in the United States since April, said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden , director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Since the C.D.C. began...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
The highest paediatric death toll from seasonal flu in the past three years was 88. Along with the spike in child (A)H1N1 flu deaths, the US has seen "more hospitalisations in people under the age of 65 than in most entire flu seasons," Frieden said.
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 month ago
Nineteen more U.S. children died from pandemic H1N1 influenza in the week ending Oct. 24, bringing the total to 65 since Aug. 30 and to 114 since the beginning of the pandemic in April, according to the newest data from the Centers for Disease...