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Global swine flu death toll falls in past week: WHO Geneva (AFP) Feb 5, 2010 
The global death toll from swine flu has risen to 15,174, up 463 from a week ago, but the pandemic is steadily losing momentum around the world, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.
"As of 31 January 2010, worldwide more than 209 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including at least 15,174 death ... read moreBritain to close swine flu unit as pandemic fades 
London (AFP) Feb 4, 2010Britain announced Thursday the closure of a crisis unit set up to deal with the swine flu pandemic last year, as new cases of the virus continue to dwindle. Britain, which was the hardest hit country in Europe by the A(H1N1) virus, will "stand down" the National Pandemic Flu Service (NPFS) from next Thursday, February 11, said Health Minister Gillian Merron "This is being done in respon ... more
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Penguin future looks perkier with marine zone: study
EU ministers call for common electric car strategy US warns China against 'stillborn' climate deal Eastern US braces for more snow misery Snowbound US government freezes up on hot issues Homes evacuated as Los Angeles braces for storm Eastern US braces for fresh snow blitz Swift help urged for Haiti's crucial weather forecasters Amnesty demands halt to Vedanta's India mine plans Two dead as storms, floods hit Turkey's south: report 
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New chinks emerge in malaria's armour
Paris (AFP) Feb 3, 2010 Investigators said on Wednesday they had made important lab discoveries in mosquitoes and the parasite which causes malaria, opening up new paths for attacking a disease that claims nearly a million lives per year. In one of two studies published in the British journal Nature, Yale University researchers said they had found more than two dozen smell receptors in the mosquito Anopheles gambia ... more Safety risk associated with HIV drug 
Washington (UPI) Feb 1, 2009 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says a rare but serious liver disorder has been reported in some HIV patients taking Videx/Videx EC. The FDA said Videx (didanosine) is an antiretroviral medicine first approved in 1991, while Videx EC is a delayed-release version of Videx. Videx/Videx EC is used in combination with other antiretroviral medicines to treat human immunodeficiency viru ... more Global swine flu death toll rises to 14,711: WHO 
Geneva (AFP) Jan 29, 2010The death toll from the swine flu pandemic has risen to at least 14,711, up 569 from a week ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday. WHO said the spread of the A(H1N1) virus peaked in most of the northern hemisphere in October and November, but transmission was still active in parts of North Africa, eastern and southeastern Europe and south and east Asia. "As of 24 January 2 ... more Disease spreads in quake-hit Haiti 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 29, 2010Haiti's desperate earthquake survivors faced a new threat Friday as the United Nations reported a rise in cases of diarrhea, measles and tetanus in squalid tent camps for victims. A vast foreign aid effort is struggling to meet survivors' needs 17 days after the disaster, which killed around 170,000 people and left one million homeless and short of medicine, food and water. "Several medi ... more |
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Haiti faces heightened malaria risk: global ranking
Paris (AFP) Jan 19, 2010 Already at high risk for malaria, Haiti faces an even greater likelihood that the disease will spread after the January 12 quake that killed at least 70,000, according to an assessment obtained on Tuesday by AFP. "It is highly probable that the prevalence of malaria will increase in the wake of the disaster," said Fiona Place, a researcher at British risk analysis specialists Maplecroft and ... more Greece cancels a third of flu vaccine orders
Athens (AFP) Jan 18, 2010Greece cancelled Monday a third of its swine flu vaccination orders and sought compensation for the advances it paid to the big companies that provide them, the health ministry said. Meanwhile, Norway agreed a deal with British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce its number of vaccines by 30 percent according to its health ministry. "We will pay only for the deliveries ... more GSK says swine flu vaccine sales hit 835 million pounds 
London (AFP) Jan 15, 2010British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline said Friday that sales of its swine flu vaccine products totalled 835 million pounds (944 million euros, 1.36 billion dollars) in the fourth quarter of last year. "GSK today confirmed that approximately 130 million doses of its pandemic H1N1 adjuvanted vaccine were shipped to governments in the fourth quarter of 2009," the London-listed firm said in a state ... more France's swine flu epidemic ends: doctors 
Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2010The swine flu epidemic in mainland France that has killed hundreds has ended, a monitoring group of doctors said on Wednesday. "It's the end of the epidemic," Thierry Blanchon, one of the doctors of the Sentinelles flu monitoring network, told AFP. The number of cases of the fever reported to doctors has "fallen below the epidemic level for the past two weeks," he said. "The virus is cer ... more |
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