Taiwan reports first Tamiflu-resistant flu case
Taipei - Taiwan Tuesday reported its first Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu case, but the patient recovered after continuous treatment, a senior official said. The patient, a 20-year-old man based in southern Taiwan, was found to have contracted the pandem...
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Norwegians urged to get vaccination against swine flu
Oslo - All citizens of Norway were urged Friday to vaccinate themselves against theA(H1N1) virus, or swine flu. The Nordic country of 4.8 million people has registered 10 deaths among more than 2,000 cases reported. ...
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Jordan okays use of swine flu vaccines
Amman - The state-run Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) on Tuesday endorsed the public use of the anti-H1N1 virus vaccine, saying its safety was established through multiple lab-testing. The JFDA has decided to allow the public circulatio...
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Belarus registers first swine flu death
Minsk- The first Belarusian death from swine flu was registered by health officials on Tuesday. The victim, a 37-year-old female resident of the town of Drogichin, died on Friday, but results of blood tests confirming the presence of the H1N1 virus o...
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First swine flu death suspected in Poland
Warsaw - A 37 year-old man suspected of carrying the H1N1 virus died in Gdansk on Friday in what was thought to be the country's first swine flu fatality, local media reported. The man died of pneumonia after a week in the hospital, reported the Poli...
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Lithuania reports first swine flu fatality
Vilnius - Health officials in Lithuania confirmed Wednesday that the country had recorded its first death linked to the A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu. The victim was a 14-year-old boy from the Baltic state's second-largest city, Kauna...
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EU calls for swine flu vaccine-sharing rules - Summary
Luxembourg- The European Union needs clear rules on how member states can share stockpiled vaccines against the human A(H1N1) variant of the swine flu virus to overcome shortages in some member states, health ministers meeting in Luxembourg agreed Mo...
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Jordan reports first swine flu fatality
Amman - A young man with a severely compromised immune system became the first fatality in Jordan from the swine flu, Jordanian authorities announced Monday. The victim, a 26-year-old man, died hours before his contraction of the H1N1 virus could be ...
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Czech Republic starts swine flu vaccination
Prague - The Czech Republic began Monday vaccinating a portion of its population against the so-called swine flu in a bid to ease a looming epidemic, health officials said. The efforts against the H1N1 influenza virus began with some hospitals vaccin...
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Lithuania confirms second swine flu fatality
Vilnius - Health officials in Lithuania confirmed Monday that the country had recorded its second death linked to the A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu. The victim was a 41-year-old man from the eastern city of Ignalina who had been admit...
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Estonia confirms first swine flu fatality
Tallinn - Fears grew about the spread of the A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu, in the Baltic states Tuesday after Estonian health officials confirmed their first fatality as a result of the illness. A statement released by the Estonian m...
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Head of WHO praises Cuba's efforts against H1N1 flu
Havana - Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), praised the work that Cuba is doing to fight the H1N1 influenza pandemic, said a statement published in Cuban state media Wednesday. Chan met with historic Cuban leade...
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French league postpones PSG game at Marseille over swine flu
Paris - A French league match between Olympique Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain was postponed Sunday after three PSG players were diagnosed with swine flu. Ludovic Giuly, Mamadou Sakho and Jeremy Clement have contracted the H1N1 virus, while two ot...
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Switzerland authorises two pandemic vaccines for H1N1
Geneva - Switzerland has authorized two vaccines against the A(H1N1) pandemic virus, the regulating agency said Friday. One shot of Pandemrix, manufactured by GlaxSmithKline, mixed with the AS03 adjuvant, would be sufficient for antibody formation, S...
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37 year-old man is first swine flu death in Poland
Warsaw - A 37 year-old man who died recently of pneumonia was carrying the H1N1 virus, doctors announced Saturday in what was the country's first swine flu fatality. The man died after a week in the hospital, reported the Polish Press Agency PAP. ...
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Study: Vulnerable due to swine flu risk should avoid hajj
Cairo - People at risk of coming down with severe illness due to H1N1 influenza should postpone their participation in the annual Muslim pilgrimage, or hajj, to Mecca, according to a study released Saturday. The findings and recommendations of the st...
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Report: Tommy Haas in swine flu scare
Hamburg - German tennis player Tommy Haas was due to know later Tuesday whether he has fully overcome a bout of swine flu which has sidelined him for the past fortnight. The Bild daily said on Tuesday that Haas was infected with the H1N1 virus last w...
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Morocco diagnoses 82 cases of swine flu in one day
Rabat, Morocco - Eighty-two cases of the H1N1 influenza have been diagnosed in Morocco in a single day, press reports said Thursday. The cases were discovered in the cities of Casablanca, Fes, Meknes, Kenintra and Rabat on October 28, Health Minister...
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Beirut school campus closed over swine flu
Beirut - The middle school at a privately-run international school in Lebanon was closed on Tuesday, a week after 19 confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus, known also as swine flu. To date we have had 32 cases of this influenza in the Beirut Middle Scho...
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Russia confirms its first swine-flu deaths
Moscow - Russia reported its first swine-flu fatalities with the deaths of two women in its far east, the Interfax news agency said Tuesday. A pregnant 29-year-old and a 50-year-old died of the H1N1 strain of the flu in the south-east Siberian city o...
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EU debates vaccine sharing over swine flu
Luxembourg - European Union health ministers met in Luxembourg on Monday to debate sharing national stockpiles of vaccines against the human H1N1 variant of swine flu with countries which are not so well prepared for the pandemic. Around a dozen of t...
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First death from swine flu in Baltic states
Riga - A 50-year-old Latvian woman on Monday became the first person in the Baltics to die of the virulent A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu. The unidentified woman died at the P Stradins University Hospital in the capital Riga, the Balti...
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Tunisia reports first two swine flu deaths - Summary
Tunis - Two Tunisian men weakened by other illnesses have died of swine flu, the country's first fatalities related to the A(H1N1) virus, the Tunisian health ministry announced Monday. The two victims, aged 37 and 40, passed away in hospital at the w...
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