Topic: United Kingdom

No wandering hands: Etiquette adviser says mistletoe kiss on cheek not lips to avoid swine fluBritain's authority on etiquette says it's more hygienic to exchange kisses on the cheek than to shake hands so the swine flu pandemic should not make people ...

Swine flu cases in England drop

British officials say swine flu cases in England dropped slightly last week, with about 53,000 new cases.In a statement Tuesday, experts guess there were about 64,000 new cases the week before. The numbers are only estimates and have a wide margin of ...

Swine flu cases in England down by 25%

British officials say that swine flu cases in England dropped by nearly 25 percent in the last week.In a statement issued on Thursday, the Health Protection Agency estimated there were about 64,000 new cases last week, compared with about 84,000 cases the ...

Visiting students brought swine flu to Kenya: study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Travelers from Britain, including medical and public health students, brought the new pandemic swine flu to Kenya in the space of a few weeks, researchers reported on Thursday.Researchers testing out the East African country's new influenza surveillance system said ...
The U.K.'s chief medical officer says there have been 18,000 new cases of swine flu in England over the last week as the country experiences the second wave of swine flu.Liam Donaldson said Thursday the rate of infection is much lower than ...

Third swine flu vaccine nears EU approval

European regulators, fighting the threat of a second wave of deadly swine flu, on Friday paved the way for a third pandemic vaccine to be approved for use across the European Union.The London-based European Medicines Agency (EMEA) recommended that the European Commission ...

New wave of swine flu nears: officials

The number of new swine flu cases jumped in a week, indicating the start of a second wave of infections as the northern hemisphere winter nears, health officials said Thursday.About 14,000 people contracted the A(H1N1) virus in England in the previous week, ...
British health officials estimate swine flu cases have increased by about 50 percent in England since last week, with about 14,000 new cases.Since they are no longer counting individual cases, the numbers released Thursday by the Health Protection Agency are only a ...

UK drug giant GSK to start shipping flu vaccine

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will next week begin shipping its swine flu vaccine Pandemrix across Europe, the group announced on Wednesday following approval by regulators. "Following the (European) Commission's approval we expect to commence shipments of Pandemrix to European governments from next week," ...

Swine flu vaccines get approval

European regulators recommended on Friday that two new vaccines to fight a swine flu pandemic be granted a marketing licence across Europe amid growing fears of a deadly second wave of the virus. "The European Medicines Agency has recommended to the European ...