Topic: Netherlands
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 told ...
The Netherlands reported its first case of drug-resistant swine flu on Wednesday, but said this was " "A patient with serious flu symptoms has turned out to be infected with an H1N1 virus that is resistant to the antiviral drug oseltamivir" commonly ...
Swine flu is spreading faster and claiming new fatalities in Europe, health officials said Friday, as the global death toll from the virus rose to nearly 5,000 victims.Since the A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April, there have been over 4,735 deaths reported ...
Mexican swine flu cases jumped as the Netherlands and Vietnam joined the growing list of countries with fatalities and deaths from the virus in Latin America soared.Three new deaths each, not yet confirmed by the World Health Organization, were registered on Tuesday ...
The National Institute of Public Health says a teenager has died from swine flu, the first death from the disease recorded in the Netherlands.The agency says the young man, 17, was suffering from an undisclosed " very serious" other disease when he ...
The Dutch Health Ministry says the government will buy 34 million doses of swine flu vaccine.The ministry says it decided to buy enough to vaccinate this entire country of 16.5 million people, plus inhabitants of the Netherlands Antilles twice over. That's because ...
Flu experts are casting a worried eye at the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, fearing that if swine influenza poses a threat six months from now, a health crisis would be massively complicated by the Hajj.Specialists questioned at a major medical conference in ...
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