Topic: China

About 100,000 student volunteers who have been selected to participate in China's National Day celebrations on October 1 will be among the first to get swine flu vaccines here, state media said Tuesday.The measure is part of a plan put in place ...

National Day paraders to get flu vaccine first

About 100,000 student volunteers who have been selected to participate in China's National Day celebrations on October 1 will be among the first to get swine flu vaccines here, state media said Tuesday.The measure is part of a plan put in place ...

Swiss, Chinese unveil new swine flu vaccines

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said on Thursday that it has tested a new swine flu vaccine that may work after one dose while health chiefs hailed another one-dose drug developed in China.Novartis said it was ready to produce one million doses of ...
China on Thursday granted approval to its first home-grown swine flu vaccine, which producer Sinovac says is effective after only one dose, as the country braces for a feared winter outbreak.The decision could boost the global fight against A(H1N1) influenza, as most ...
China approves single-dose swine flu vaccine, experts say could be good newsThe answer may be at hand to a crucial question about vaccination for the advancing swine flu one shot or two? Many health researchers fear it will take two shots to ...

China approves homegrown swine flu vaccine

China's State Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted approval to a homegrown swine flu vaccine, which producer Sinovac says is effective after only one dose. "The Sinovac H1N1 vaccine is officially approved," the head of the SFDA's registration department, Zhang Wei, ...

Will H1N1 Be an Asian Market Killer?

SARS took 2-3% off GDP Asian growth. I don't know how serious this outbreak of H1N1 swine flu is, but there are indications that Asia is under-reporting the incidence of swine flu.. that is corruption in China), the more likely it is ...
A group of 36 primary students who attended a summer school in Beijing were hospitalized with swine flu, a state news agency said Saturday.The students were among 80 students at a training camp on July 11-20, the Xinhua News Agency said, citing ...
Some Muslim countries are advising pregnant women not to attend the hajj pilgrimage. China is quarantining any visitor suspected of having a fever, while priests in New Zealand have been banned from placing Communion wafers on worshippers' tongues.It's all part of a ...

Asian tourism to NZ dives amid swine flu fears

The number of Asian tourists visiting New Zealand has plummeted due to swine flu fears, officials said Tuesday.The numbers of visitors from China, Japan and South Korea fell by half in June compared with the same month last year as the influenza ...