Topic: Western Europe

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 ...

WHO sets up swine flu probe

Health experts on Monday begin examining the controversial response to the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century, nearly a year after global alarm was raised over the new swine flu strain. The World Health Organisation is forming a panel of 29 ...
Britain: Swine flu less deadly than first thought, about 100 times less lethal than 1918 fluSwine flu is far less dangerous than originally feared, British officials said Thursday — about 100 times less lethal than the 1918 Spanish flu. To determine how ...

Sharp increase in swine flu deaths in France

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. ...
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 ...

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 ...
Safety officials in the northwest Swiss canton (state) of Basel-Landschaft say an infant has become the country's first fatality from swine flu. Local daily Basler Zeitung reported Wednesday on its Web site that the 5-month-old child died several days ago. It quoted ...

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 Netherlands reported its first case of drug-resistant swine flu on Wednesday, but said this was "no reason for panic". "A patient with serious flu symptoms has turned out to be infected with an H1N1 virus that is resistant to the antiviral ...

PSG duo tested for swine flu

Two players of Paris St Germain have undergone tests for swine flu, football officials said on Saturday casting doubts over Sunday's league game at Marseille. Winger Ludovic Guily and defender Mamadou Sakho have been been unwell with fly symptoms for the last ...
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