Topic: Keiji Fukuda
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 ...
World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan on Friday urged governments to prepare for a likely second wave of swine flu cases, cautioning they will face tough decisions on how to dispense vaccines.Chan's statement came as more than two dozen pharmaceutical companies around ...
The World Health Organization was set on Thursday to declare the first influenza pandemic since 1968, due to the H1N1 virus' rapid spread in North America, Australia, South America, Europe and regions beyond, health officials said.. On Thursday, Indonesia's health minister, Siti ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization has called an emergency meeting of experts on Thursday to discuss the spreading H1N1 flu outbreak, in a sign the U.N. agency may be poised to declare a pandemic.WHO Director-General Margaret Chan, who consulted health ...
The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that the world was on the verge of an official swine flu pandemic, saying it was working to prepare countries for raising its alarm to the highest level. "We are getting very, very close," said Keiji ...
6/10/2009 Print E-mail A surge in cases of H1N1 swine flu in Australia may tip the balance and cause the World Health Organization to soon declare the first flu pandemic since 1968, agency officials said Tuesday.. "We are getting really very close ...
The world is getting " very close" to a swine flu pandemic, a senior World Health Organisation official said Tuesday, noting that there is now community-level transmission in Australia. "We are really getting very close" to a pandemic, said Keiji Fukuda, assistant ...
WHO says swine flu alert moving closer to global epidemic as cases hit 18,965, with 117 deadThe World Health Organization said Tuesday it is " getting closer" to declaring a global outbreak of the swine flu virus as the infection appears to ...
Mexico reported two more swine flu deaths on Tuesday, as World Health Organization scientists asked if it had moved too quickly to declare the outbreak a pandemic.Authorities in Mexico said the death toll had risen to 85, and infected cases rose to ...
The World Health Organisation will consult scientists over the coming weeks to clear up the criteria needed to declare a pandemic with the new A(H1N1) flu virus, a senior official said Tuesday. "We are trying to see what kind of adjustments must ...
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