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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Patients who fell severely ill with the pandemic H1N1 flu responded well when treated with antibodies harvested from survivors of the disease, a study in Hong Kong has found.The finding, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, underlines ...
LONDON (Reuters) - There is no evidence to link GlaxoSmithKline's H1N1 swine flu vaccine Pandemrix to cases of narcolepsy, European drugs regulators said on Thursday, but a full review is needed and will take three to six months.The European Medicines Agency (EMA) ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The H1N1 swine flu virus underwent a mutation and used a new trick to spread efficiently in people, another signal to help experts predict whether a flu virus can cause a pandemic, researchers said Friday.The H1N1 swine flu ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The World Health Organization's emergency committee intends to convene as early as Tuesday to review data and declare an end to the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, Bloomberg News reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.WHO Director General ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans who were worried about the safety of the swine flu vaccine are still worried and it may not be easy to convince them to get themselves or their children vaccinated, researchers said on Tuesday.About 60 percent of parents ...
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian health officials said on Wednesday that the H1N1 flu outbreak might have reached its peak in Canada, but cautioned that the fight is not yet over.David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief public health officer, said that while some areas of ...
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. Six ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.The trigger for the bull run may have been the ...
SEOUL (Reuters Life! ) - Not even the H1N1 flu, which has paralyzed many parts of the globe, could stop South Korean teens from taking the national college entrance exam, a test many feel will set the course for their future.The flu ...
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.The terracotta dispenser, used in ...
