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In a statement made today, October 12, Marie-Paule Kieny, the head of Vaccine Research at the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that the United Nations agency plans to start sending H1N1 influenza vaccines to the developing world as early as next month. Most of the drugs will be donated by big pharmaceutical... |
12 October 2009
18:11 GMT |
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Developing countries, through their very nature, have very poor healthcare systems and coverage, therefore a large number of people dies from conditions that would merely inconvenience people in the developed world. Pneumonia is a good example of such a disease. In its basic forms, it is easily treated with antibioti... |
6 October 2009
03:07 GMT |
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According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it may be that the swine flu vaccine, a new drug created specifically for the recent strain of the virus that caused a global pandemic, won't be available to the general public until after mid-October. The announcement was made yesterday by Dr... |
27 August 2009
04:54 GMT |
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In two new, separate studies using ferret populations, experts have determined that the A H1N1 influenza strain has a very widespread effect on the body, being able to penetrate deep within the respiratory tract, and even as far as the intestines. This find may help explain why the symptoms associated with swine flu ... |
6 July 2009
02:20 GMT |
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As the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced the swine flu outbreak to be a pandemic, it has brought more attention than ever before to the dangers that the influenza virus holds. Although it's generally regarded as a mild disease, which does not cause any real damage to humans, from time to time it... |
30 June 2009
03:35 GMT |
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The current swine flu pandemic has also drawn attention to a very worrying fact – throughout the world, millions of people could lose their lives because they don't have access to affordable supplies of antiviral drugs and vaccines. In fact, statisticians estimate, more than 90 percent of the world's ... |
15 June 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday that it had lifted the warning level on the swine influenza outbreak from five to a maximum of six, which means that the contagion is now officially classified as a pandemic, the first since 1968. Thus far, the disease has spread in some 74 countries, and the WH... |
12 June 2009
02:36 GMT |
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At this point, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced, the flu season in the temperate Northern Hemisphere is over, which means that we will get to a see a reduction in the number of new swine flu cases that appear in these areas. However, health experts warn, the infection will now move south of the Equat... |
28 May 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Keeping in tune with the bleak tone of its recent statements, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries that they should be prepared for more widespread and devastating flu epidemics in the future. The concern is prompted by the fact that, in some parts of South America, Africa and Asia, the swine flu viru... |
24 May 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Recent developments in the analysis of the H1N1 swine influenza virus have shown that the lethal viral strain does not combine genes from humans, birds and pigs, as first thought, but that it's rather made up of a combination of two swine flu strains, which, brought together, are deadly to us. Scientists studyin... |
29 April 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Over the past century, the influenza virus has wreaked havoc in the human population all around the world, while at the same time leaving experts unable to devise a comprehensive cure to kill it off. Because of its unique structure, the viral agent can easily mutate, and does so from one season to the next, making th... |
28 April 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Compound 1, also known as NSC89853, is the enigmatic name under which researchers in Hong Kong and the United States have presented a new substance, which they say is able to effectively counteract influenza strains, including the H5N1 that causes avian flu. The compound is said to be able to effectively block the vi... |
16 April 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States and Japan managed to discover the genetic complex that is thought to be responsible for the 50 million deaths registered during the largest and deadliest pandemic in the world, the 1918 influenza pandemic. The complex, which contains three genes, allows the virus to survive and replica... |
30 December 2008
02:41 GMT |
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A recent study, conducted by Joseph Emmerich, M.D., PhD, at the University Paris Descartes, showed that people who had been vaccinated against influenza exhibited 26 percent less chances of developing blood clots (venous thrombotic embolism – VTE), as opposed to the control group. All participants to the test w... |
10 November 2008
10:16 GMT |
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Newborn babies are at increased risk of developing influenza, as compared to other children, because of the fact that their immune system is still weak in their first weeks of life. The flu accounts for many deaths among infants who contracted this disease from family members, who didn't get their flu shots... |
27 October 2008
02:50 GMT |
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Flue strikes Europe and North America each winter. But the virus is not native: it always comes from the agglomerated cities of East and Southeast Asia, where new strains of deadly influenza viruses evolve and expand around the globe, as revealed by two new studies published in the journal Science. "For over 60 years... |
21 April 2008
05:05 GMT |
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