Novartis begins shipment of swine flu vaccine to US
Geneva - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said Tuesday it has started shipping vaccines against the A(H1N1) virus, better known as swine flu, to the United States. The company began sending doses last week from a production seed strain provided by the World ...
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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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European Commission authorizes two H1N1 vaccines
Brussels - The European Commission on Tuesday authorized the use of two vaccines for the pandemic A(H1N1) virus, commonly known as swine flu, after successful testing was carried out by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The vaccines are Focetria, ...
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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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Tunisia is first country to prohibit Hajj because of swine flu
Tunis/Cairo - Tunisians will not be allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Muslim pilgrimage or Hajj because of fears of the H1N1 virus, known also as swine flu, the government announced Tuesday. No other country has yet said it would prevent its ...
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EU agency approves two H1N1 vaccines - Summary
Geneva/Brussels - The European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Friday approved two vaccines for the pandemic A(H1N1) virus, commonly known as swine flu , after testing them on more than 6,000 subjects. The vaccines are Focetria, which is produced by Swiss...
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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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First German swine flu death confirmed
Essen - Germany has had its first confirmed swine flu fatality, medical tests released Thursday confirmed. The 36-year-old woman died of multiple organ and lung failure on September 25. Extensive tests showed that the H1N1 virus - commonly known as s...
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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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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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Norway's higher swine flu death toll to be analyzed
Oslo - Norway had as of Thursday registered a higher number of swine flu cases and fatalities than its Nordic neighbours, sparking speculation of a possible mutation of the A(H1N1) virus. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health reported Norway has r...
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Thirteen players down with swine flu at Spanish club Betis
Madrid- The Seville club Betis, currently playing in the second category of Spanish football, asked Thursday for a postponement of their next match because 13 of their players are down with the new H1N1 influenza virus, or swine flu, Spanish media re...
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Team issues apology over jumping swin flu vaccination queue
Stockholm - A Swedish ice hockey team Thursday issued an apology after it was disclosed that its players jumped the queue for vaccinations against swine flu, also known as A(H1N1). The news that Leksand IF players had been vaccinated, although they d...
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