Topic: United Nations
Scientists advising the World Health Organisation on Tuesday held a meeting to give their latest assessment of swine flu, in a move that could end the pandemic alert, a WHO spokesman said. The UN health agency said the result of the confidential ...
The U.N.'s global health chief says the world was lucky that the swine flu pandemic was relatively mild. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan tells government delegations that the virus hadn't mutated into a more dangerous form, and that treatments such as Tamiflu and ...
The World Health Organisation said Thursday that the swine flu pandemic virus would spread again next winter in the northern hemisphere and recommended its inclusion in the regular influenza vaccine. Protection against two other seasonal strains should be incorporated along with the ...
The World Health Organisation said Thursday that the swine flu pandemic virus would threaten again next winter in the northern hemisphere and recommended its inclusion in the regular influenza vaccine. Protection for two other seasonal strains should be incorporated along with the ...
The number of swine flu deaths worldwide passed the 10,000 mark about eight months after the pandemic strain was uncovered in April, reaching 10,582, World Health Organisation data showed Friday. "As of 13 December 2009, worldwide more than 208 countries and overseas ...
The number of swine flu deaths jumped by over 1,000 in a week, reaching at least 7,826 worldwide since the virus was first uncovered in April, World Health Organisation data showed Friday. The number of deaths reported to the UN health agency ...
The World Health Organisation on Thursday called on doctors to use antiviral drugs swiftly on the most vulnerable swine flu patients, to prevent severe cases and avoid swamping hospitals. WHO clinical expert Niki Shindo said the agency would issue new guidelines targeting ...
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 U.N. ...
Afghanistan has recorded its first death from the swine flu pandemic, the public health ministry announced on Wednesday. "The victim was an engineer from Kabul. He was working for a construction company," ministry spokesman Farid Rahid told AFP. The spokesman said the ...
At least 4,735 people have died from swine flu infections since the A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April, the World Health Organisation said Friday. This is an increase of 210 fatal cases from a week ago when 4,525 deaths were recorded, the ...
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