Influenza News

An international team of experts has arrived in Vietnam to study the likelihood of greater human-to-human transmission of the bird flu virus, the World Health Organisation said.

WELLINGTON - Three more children have been found to have died from acute illnesses since the start of April, but none of the deaths were related to influenza B, the Health Ministry says.

FOUR times more Victorians have been hit by influenza than at the same time last year, indicating an early start to the flu season.

By Hari Krishnan Jun. 23, 2005 at 10:13PM This year's flu season was as severe as last year's, not worse, probably because it peaked later, giving officials more time to get vaccine, a report said.

Two drug companies are fighting over the rights to Tamiflu, an influenza drug that is viewed as the best hope for slowing a possible global pandemic of bird flu.

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A team of international influenza experts is in Hanoi, at the invitation of the Vietnamese government, to investigate worrisome signs the avian flu virus known as H5N1 may be adapting in ways that may make it ...

Schools could be shut down, social gatherings limited and community centres closed if York Region experiences a flu outbreak, Aurora councillors heard Tuesday night.

Elective surgery has been postponed as Hawke's Bay Hospital reels from the impact of the flu bug and other viruses which have hit staff and patients and filled its beds.

WENATCHEE - Officials in five counties will participate in a drill next Wednesday to test the ability of officials in north-central Washington to respond to a flu pandemic.

The 2004-2005 flu season was at least as severe as the 2003-2004 season, but peaked later according to data from Solucient, a leading provider of healthcare information.

In July 2004, an outbreak of influenza A was detected at 3 Bhutanese refugee camps in southeastern Nepal.

Norway is closing the laboratories that did the work on which New Zealand's meningococcal B ... Professor Lars Haaheim, at the Influenza Centre at the University of Bergen, and Mr Rosenqvist ...

The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization warned there could be serious consequences for China and Asia if the government does not stamp out misuse of a bird flu drug.

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A campaign teaching children how to sneeze safely has started as schools across the country urge parents to keep youngsters with colds away from class.

In Melbourne, lots and lots of people have got the flu. Everybody, it seems, knows somebody who ... Dr Alan Hampson from the WHO Influenza Research Centre attempts to answer these questions when speaking with Ian Cover and Jeff Richardson during the 774 ABC Melbourne Breakfast program.

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The Washington state Department of Health and the Nursing Commission have charged a registered nurse with conducting unlawful flu clinics.

This past Wednesday at 9 a.m. the State Department of Public Health issued an influenza alert.

An experimental flu vaccine protects people from getting influenza and lessens the severity of the illness, a Meriden company said of the preliminary results of a field trial.

China denied it had encouraged farmers to use a drug meant for humans to treat bird flu in poultry, a practice that could render the medicine useless, but said it would investigate the claim.

Khairil Anwar, a former chicken farm worker, has taken things in stride since being told he had contracted bird flu in what might be the country's first human infection of the disease.

Indonesia has found 50 polio cases since the disease re-emerged in the country last month, and one human carrier of the bird flu virus after an outbreak hit the nation's fowl in March, the health minister said ...

Should we sound the alarm for a worldwide epidemic that might not occur? There is no choice with the avian flu emerging from Asia.

The United States does not have nearly enough antiviral drugs on hand to fight a coming influenza ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that even a "mild" flu pandemic could kill 100,000 to 250,000 Americans if the nation is not prepared.

In a soon-to-be-released issue of a scientific journal, researchers from Thailand and Hong Kong will report the findings of an autopsy of a six-year-old Thai boy who died from avian influenza.

Chiron Corp. said Wednesday it will not deliver as many flu shots this year as it had promised, prompting the beleaguered biotechnology company to cut its 2005 financial forecast.

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MedImmune Inc. finally announced good news yesterday about its disappointing nasal flu vaccine FluMist: A new formulation works just as well when stored in a refrigerator as the old version does when it is ...

Boeing Co. Chairman Lew Platt said Wednesday that a trans-Atlantic trade dispute over plane subsidies should not exclude Airbus from U.S. defense work as sought by lawmakers.