Topic: East Asia
Yi Guan has plenty of experience at ground zero of an epidemic. In spring 2003, the virologist at Hong Kong University (HKU) isolated the SARS virus from masked palm civets in a wild animal market in China's Guangdong Province. When the virus ...
China's health ministry has urged vulnerable groups to get swine flu vaccinations or limit travel during the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year holiday due to the spread of the A(H1N1) virus. "Pregnant women, children, the elderly, obese people and those with chronic ...
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 ...
South Korea is preparing to ship medical supplies worth more than 15 million dollars to help North Korea fight an outbreak of swine flu, officials said Monday.The unification ministry, which handles cross-border ties, said the shipment would include antiviral drugs for 500,000 ...
South Korea is preparing to ship medical supplies worth more than 15 million dollars to help North Korea fight an outbreak of swine flu, officials said Monday.The unification ministry, which handles cross-border ties, said the shipment would include antiviral drugs for 500,000 ...
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 ...
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