Europe - Facts About H1N1

Finland's National Institute for Health and Wefare recommended Tuesday halting the use of the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine until a probe into a possible link to narcolepsy among children is concluded. "At the moment we are not having a (swine flu) epidemic, ...

The Netherlands is destroying more than 17 million unused doses of swine flu vaccine that were nearing their expiry date and that it could not resell, the health ministry said Tuesday. "We have started destroying" the vaccines, health ministry spokeswoman Inge Freriksen ...

Health experts on Monday begin examining the controversial response to the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century, nearly a year after global alarm was raised over the new swine flu strain. The World Health Organisation is forming a panel of 29 ...

Poland stands alone in rejecting swine flu vaccines out of safety fearsThe decision seemed fraught with risk: a government refusing to import swine flu vaccines amid worldwide warnings of a spreading epidemic. But Poland did just that, becoming the only country worldwide ...

More than 11,500 people have died from swine flu worldwide since the pandemic strain was uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data showed Wednesday. The WHO said overall A(H1N1) influenza "activity has recently peaked in much of the (northern) hemisphere," including North ...

Senior World Health Organisation official Keiji Fukuda said Thursday that it was too early to declare the swine flu pandemic over, as it continues at "high levels" in parts of Europe and central Asia. Copyright 2009 AFP Global Edition

Britain: Swine flu less deadly than first thought, about 100 times less lethal than 1918 fluSwine flu is far less dangerous than originally feared, British officials said Thursday — about 100 times less lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu. To determine how ...

The number of swine flu deaths jumped by over 1,000 in a week, reaching at least 7,826 worldwide since the virus was first uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data showed Friday. The number of deaths reported to the UN health agency ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The number of deaths in mainland France from the H1N1 swine flu virus jumped in the last week, according to official data Thursday. The toll rose to 68 deaths as of November 22, with 22 new deaths last week. ...

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Topic: Europe

Narcolepsy fears may halt swine flu vaccine: Finland

Narcolepsy fears may halt swine flu vaccine, Finland

Netherlands destroying 17 million swine flu vaccine doses

WHO sets up swine flu probe

Poland stands alone in refusing swine flu vaccines

Global swine flu deaths exceed 11,500: WHO

Too early to declare end to swine flu pandemic: WHO

Britain: Swine flu less deadly than first thought

Flu death toll jumps by over 1,000 in a week: WHO

Sharp increase in swine flu deaths in France

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