Topic: China
China said Monday it had recorded 659 swine flu deaths in 2009, nearly all of them in the last two months of the year, and warned that the danger of mass outbreaks still existed in certain areas.The health ministry said in a ...
China is warning officials to brace for a possible new wave of swine flu infections as the country enters the busy Lunar New Year travel period.Tens of millions of Chinese take to the rails, roads and air during the most important holiday ...
China's Health Ministry warned Friday that the swine flu outbreak in the country could peak over the next several months, especially as hundreds of millions of people return home for the traditional Chinese New Year. "Large numbers of travelers during the Lunar ...
China's official swine flu death toll has hit 200 with almost all of the deaths recorded in November, the health ministry announced.A statement posted on the ministry's website Friday said 194 of the deaths from the influenza A(H1N1) virus had been reported ...
Two dogs in Beijing have tested positive for swine flu in the second case of animals catching the disease in China along with pigs in the northeast, Chinese media said Sunday.The A(H1N1) virus detected in the dogs was 99 percent identical to ...
The World Health Organisation said Thursday that it is investigating reports of mutations in the swine flu virus, after half-a-dozen countries recorded cases in which the virus was transforming. "The question is whether these mutations again suggest that there is a fundamental ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.The trigger for the bull run may have been the ...
China has discovered eight people with mutated versions of swine flu but drugs are still effective against the new strains, a senior health official told the official Xinhua news agency.Shu Yuelong, director of the Chinese National Influenza Centre, said the first mutated ...
China reports 8 cases of mutated swine flu virus; says drugs, vaccine still effectiveChina has detected eight people infected with mutated forms of the swine flu virus, a health official said Wednesday, but flu drugs and vaccines still work against it.Flu viruses ...
China reports 8 cases of swine flu virus mutation; says drugs, vaccine still effectiveChina has detected eight cases of swine flu mutation, a health official said Wednesday, amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous form.Last ...
