Topic: China
China closes research base as a precaution to protect pandas from swine fluA panda research center in northwestern China has been closed to visitors as a precaution to protect the endangered species from catching swine flu, state media reported on Tuesday.It is ...
China has ordered more accurate reporting of swine flu deaths after a doctor renowned for helping expose the scale of the 2003 SARS outbreak claimed the true number of fatalities was being covered up.The health ministry " reaffirms that health authorities at ...
China to punish those concealing swine flu cases, while doctor warns of cover-upChina's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes ...
Radical swine flu measures in China, elsewhere, won't stop outbreaksHealth experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms have failed to contain the disease.Despite initially ...
With the number of swine flu cases tripling every month in China, Chinese vaccine makers and other medical stocks are also flying toward their peaks.. They included a 33-year-old man from northwest China's Gansu Province, two teenagers from north Hebei Province and ...
State media say a 32-year-old Russian man has become the first foreigner to die from swine flu in mainland China.The official Xinhua News Agency says the man was suffering from shortness of breath and a high fever and was admitted to a ...
China's Health Ministry says two more people have died of swine flu on the mainland, bringing its death toll to six.The ministry said late Friday that China had reported 2,972 confirmed cases of H1N1 virus in 48 hours ending Friday afternoon.No more ...
China has warned the country's battle against swine flu is " extremely grim" after infection levels spiked in some areas and a Beijing university student became the fourth person here to die of the virus. "There is a surge in patients in ...
China gives swine flu vaccines to thousands of Muslims making pilgrimage to MeccaChina will give swine flu vaccinations to thousands of Muslims about to make the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, state media said, as authorities reported the mainland's third death from ...
China reports 3rd confirmed swine flu death; vaccinates 2,000 Muslims making pilgrimageChinese officials moved to give swine flu vaccinations to thousands of Muslims making a pilgrimage to Mecca in the coming days as health authorities reported the mainland's third death from the ...
