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 [...]
China’s health minister says the nation is facing a grim situation as it tries to contain a rapid surge in swine flu.
Chen Zhu said a vaccination programme would start this week, prioritising those taking part in events to celebrate National Day on Oct. 1.
Children will also be treated as a priority, because outbreaks of flu [...]
Doctors and nurses should be the first in line to receive a new vaccine against pandemic H1N1 influenza, but difficulties in growing the virus indicate that the first fully licensed vaccine may not be available until the end of the year, a World Health Organization spokeswoman said today.
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts, the WHO’s [...]
GENEVA (AFP) — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Monday on the Organization of American States to work to restore constitutional order in Honduras, where the president has been blocked from returning after a coup.
The OAS bloc must “take a leadership role to find the peaceful solution to that issue whereby the constitutional order can [...]
One in six children is clinically obese when they start primary school in parts of the UK, new figures show.
Medical experts say there is growing evidence that parents are unable to distinguish between ‘puppy fat’ and the sort of obesity that puts their health at risk.
Figures released by the Department of Health show one British [...]
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