MANILA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) promised on Thursday to donate 9 million H1N1 flu shots to the Philippines, and assured ...
There's no evidence that the swine flu vaccine is causing any serious side effects, U.S. health officials said Wednesday, in their first report ...
An unusual number of severe allergic reactions to swine flu vaccinations have been recorded in Canada, where a batch of the vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline has been recalled, the WHO said on Tuesday. "An unusual number of severe allergies to the vaccine have ...
GlaxoSmithKline pulls batch of swine flu vaccines in Canada over severe allergy fears Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170,000 swine flu vaccines after six reports of serious allergic reactions among recipients, but there are no similar ...
Swiss pharmaceuticals maker Novartis AG has opened the first U.S. plant to produce flu vaccines using cell cultures instead of egg-based methods, it said Tuesday. The new site in Holly Springs, North Carolina, is unlikely to ramp up output in time to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over. Officials also said they were investigating several troubling outbreaks of drug-resistant ...
Pfizer, Immunovaccine will collaborate on cattle vaccines; terms of partnership not disclosed Immunovaccine Inc. said Monday that Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, is licensing its technology for use in vaccines for cattle. Terms of the deal between Pfizer Animal Health and ...
A leading association of clinicians on Monday accused an "anti-vaccination movement" of breeding suspicion about the (A)H1N1 swine flu vaccine in Europe and declared public health and lives were at risk. The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) said ...
A Cypriot Health Ministry official says authorities have begun inoculating health care workers, pregnant women and high-risk patients against swine flu. Olga Kalakouta says the estimated 50,000 voluntary vaccinations started Monday and will continue over the next three weeks at designated health ...
Health workers are about to launch a yellow fever vaccination campaign for nearly 12 million West Africans. World Health Organization spokeswoman Aphaluck Bhatiasevi said the workers will begin vaccinating in Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone on Monday. She says local health teams ...
Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said Saturday. Bruno Lina, director of the national flu virus monitoring centre for southern France, said the mutation of the ...
CDC: 4 people in NC test positive for Tamiflu-resistant swine flu, first such US cluster Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases ...
