Topic: World Health Organization
The World Health Organisation on Friday stood by its advice on the use of Tamiflu in high risk swine flu patients, insisting that it was effective in those cases despite a study questioning the antiviral drug. WHO spokesman Gregory Haertl said the ...
The World Health Organisation confirmed on Friday that swine flu has peaked in North America and was declining, in its latest weekly data on the pandemic. However, in both Canada and the United States, the virus remains "active and geographically widespread," while ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - H1N1 swine flu has not peaked yet but seems to be waning in Canada and the United States, signaling that the end of the pandemic may be on the horizon, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. A ...
Bird flu has killed a Vietnamese man, the Health Ministry reported Tuesday, following warnings from the World Health Organization about a potential combination of the bird flu and swine flu viruses. The 23-year-old man died last week, two days after being admitted ...
Swine flu virus mutations are spreading in Europe, French health officials said Friday as the World Health Organisation reported a leap in deaths from the disease by more than 1,000 in a week. Two patients who were infected by a mutation that ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said. Zhong ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H1N1 flu is moving eastwards across Europe and Asia after appearing to peak in parts of western Europe and the United States, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. At least 6,770 deaths have been recorded worldwide ...
The World Health Organization says tests on swine flu samples from Ukraine show no significant mutation of the virus. WHO had sent an expert team to Ukraine last week after reports of an unusual flu outbreak. The global body said Tuesday that ...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Asia will receive a stockpile of 500,000 courses of H1N1 flu drugs by April next year to supplement any shortfall in the region, an official with a Japanese donor agency said on Tuesday. The $18 million stockpile is ...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Asia will receive a stockpile of 500,000 courses of H1N1 flu drugs by April next year to supplement any shortfall in the region, an official with a Japanese donor agency said on Tuesday. The $18 million stockpile is ...
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