Topic: Keiji Fukuda
Swine flu will spread further across the world, the World Health Organisation warned, as the number of confirmed cases surged by more than 1,000 and Japan Saturday reported its first domestic infection.Acting WHO Assistant Director General Keiji Fukuda told reporters that studies ...
Swine flu will spread further across the world, experts at the World Health Organisation warned Friday, as the number of confirmed cases surged by more than 1,000 and the US reported two more deaths.Acting WHO Assistant Director-General Keiji Fukuda told reporters that ...
Scientists need more time to decide whether to mass produce a vaccine against swine flu, the World Health Organization said, as the number of cases topped 6,000 around the globe.Acting assistant WHO director-general Keiji Fukuda told journalists that a meeting of experts ...
The World Health Organisation said Thursday that scientists will need more time to decide whether to start mass production of vaccines against the swine flu virus.Acting assistant director-general Keiji Fukuda told journalists there have been " no big decisions" from a meeting ...
The World Health Organization has defended its decision to raise the global pandemic alarm for swine flu as Cuba, Thailand and Finland confirmed their first cases of the virus.The global health body's acting Assistant Director-General Keiji Fukuda insisted the outbreak would have ...
WHO says up to 2 billion people might get swine flu if it moves to a pandemicUp to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic lasting two years, the World Health Organization ...
With the flu outbreak settling into a rather steady pattern of rising numbers of generally mild cases, the WHO's Keiji Fukuda (pictured) today brandished a big number to warn against complacency. He said a third of the people on the planet - ...
World health chiefs admitted Thursday they had yet to get a handle on swine flu and warned against any lowering of the guard after Mexico, the epicentre of the epidemic, ended a nationwide lockdown.High schools and universities reopened in Mexico, the day ...
The World Health Organisation on Thursday said that in a pandemic situation it was " reasonable" to estimate that a third of the world's population would catch the swine flu virus. "If you look at past pandemics, it would be a reasonable ...
Mexico closed down virtually every public space in the capital, desperately trying to keep the lid on a swine flu outbreak that has sparked fears a deadly global pandemic is at hand.Even as the government revised down its confirmed death toll, other ...