Topic: Keiji Fukuda
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday declared the swine flu pandemic over, more than a year after the new virus spread around the world, sparking panic and killing thousands before fizzling out. "The world is no longer in phase six of the ...
The World Health Organisation said Monday it would go ahead next month with an independent review of the response to the swine flu pandemic, after criticism of its role in declaring a global alert. The international response will be scrutinised by a ...
It is too early to say that the swine flu pandemic has peaked in all parts of the world, the World Health Organisation's emergency committee said. "The Committee advised that it was premature to conclude that all parts of the world have ...
The World Health Organisation said Thursday that the swine flu pandemic virus would spread again next winter in the northern hemisphere and recommended its inclusion in the regular influenza vaccine. Protection against two other seasonal strains should be incorporated along with the ...
The World Health Organization is recommending that swine flu be added to regular flu vaccines next season. The swine flu pandemic virus, or H1N1, emerged too late last year to be added to the regular flu vaccine, and a separate vaccine was ...
WHO experts to meet this month, examine whether peak of swine flu pandemic is overThe World Health Organization will hold an expert meeting later this month to consider whether the swine flu pandemic's peak has passed, a senior official said Thursday. WHO's ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The H1N1 flu pandemic appears to be easing, but a third wave of infections could yet strike, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. "Pandemic infections are occurring in many countries but overall the pattern is decreasing," Keiji ...
The World Health Organization plans to start shipping swine flu vaccine to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the next few weeks, flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday. Another 32 developing countries are in line to get the vaccine soon. The U.N. health ...
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. Although the A(H1N1) flu virus is peaking in ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Cases of the H1N1 pandemic influenza virus showing resistance to antiviral drugs are "isolated and infrequent," the World Health Organization said on Thursday. "We see no evidence at all that there is widespread occurrence of antiviral resistance," the U.N. ...
