Spanish farmers gave away 30 tons of fruit and vegetables to dispel fears they say are still hurting producers after being wrongy blamed for an E.coli outbreak
An Ontario man who returned from a holiday in Germany may be Canada’s first case of E. coli linked to the European outbreak, says Ontario’s health ministry
Racing to curb the spread of a killer food bug, Germany set up a national task force on Friday to hunt down the source of a highly toxic killer strain of E.coli
Chinese researchers — reporting on the administration of more than 89 million doses of the pandemic flu vaccine — have confirmed its safety
Health authorities will need to ramp up the speed and volume of production of flu vaccine during the next global outbreak, the WHO says
LONDON (Reuters) – European scientists and health authorities are facing angry questions about why H1N1 flu has not caused death and destruction on the scale first feared, and they need to respond deftly to ensure public support.
Accusations are flying in British and French media that the pandemic has been “hyped” by medical researchers to further [...]
GENEVA (Reuters) – Pregnant women and other people at high risk should be vaccinated against the H1N1 swine flu virus as the cold weather begins to bite in the northern hemisphere, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
It voiced concern that some vulnerable people are shying away from the pandemic vaccine, which the WHO [...]
LONDON — British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will next week begin shipping its swine flu vaccine Pandemrix across Europe, the group announced on Wednesday following approval by regulators.
“Following the (European) Commission’s approval we expect to commence shipments of Pandemrix to European governments from next week,” said Jean Stephenne, President of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, in a company statement.
The news [...]
BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — China will have reserves of 26 million A/H1N1 flu vaccine shots at the end of October, according to a news briefing jointly held by the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Beijing Wednesday.
“The number is expected to increase to 100 million [...]
Washington – The Afghan elections, already tainted by widespread accusations of misconduct and fraud, received another body blow Wednesday when the head of the European Union’s election-monitoring commission said that as many as 1.5 million votes cast in the vote were “suspect.”
The latest dark cloud over the Aug. 20 election came as Afghanistan’s election commission [...]
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