Topic: Keiji Fukuda
AP Features | 2009-12-17 12:33:11
<div><p>The World Health Organization plans to start shipping swine flu vaccine to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the next few weeks, flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday.</p><p>Another 32 developing countries are in line to get the vaccine soon. The U.N. health agency has prioritized sending the ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-12-03 15:02:00
<div><p>GENEVA (Reuters) - H1N1 swine flu has not peaked yet but seems to be waning in Canada and the United States, signaling that the end of the pandemic may be on the horizon, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.</p><p>A third wave of infections may still be ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2009-11-06 19:30:53
<div><p>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.</p><p>"We see no evidence at all that there is widespread occurrence of antiviral resistance," the U.N. health agency's pandemic flu expert ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-11-05 17:00:57
<div><p>The World Health Organisation on Thursday urged people not to drop their guard over the swine flu pandemic and insisted on the value of vaccination despite the broadly mild symptoms of the virus.</p><p>"At the WHO we remain quite concerned about the pattern we are seeing, particularly because ...
