The World Health Organization (WHO)on Thursday reemphasized the safety of A/H1N1 flu vaccine, saying a small number of deaths that occurred after vaccination were actually not caused by the vaccine itself. "Although some investigations are still ongoing, results of completed investigations reported to the WHO have ruled out that the pandemic vaccine is the cause of death," said Dr Marie-Paule Kie...
Some 1.98 million French people have been infected with A/H1N1 flu since this August, the French influenza surveillance system reported on Wednesday. "From the beginning of this August, 1.98 million French people have been infected with A/H1N1 epidemic," French Regional Groups of Flu Observation (Grog) said, adding that the figure may be a little underestimated from the real level. As many as 41...
The Spanish Health Ministry began its vaccination campaign against the A/H1N1 flu virus this Monday. The Ministry expects between 15-20 percent of the population will receive the vaccine. The vaccination campaign begins with high-risk groups being the first to receive the vaccination. Those groups include state security forces, police, firemen, health and civil protection workers as well as anyo...
Of these, about 120,000 doses will be taken up by general practitioners as well as clinics. Another 80,000 doses will be set aside to vaccinate the first batch of frontline staff. H1N1 vaccine rolled out to public and private clinics in Singapore Those who want to get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus can do so within the next few days. The Ministry of Health (MOH) rolled out some 50,000 do...
High-risk groups in Malaysia will have access to 200,000 A/H1N1 flu vaccine doses by January next year, a Malaysian official said here on Saturday. Malaysian Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said after launching an anti-aedes campaign here that pregnant women and patients with chronic diseases in the country were among those who could receive injections of the vaccine. Liow said the ministry was c...
Two Chinese people have been reported dead after they received vaccination against the A/H1N1 influenza, Deng Haihua, spokesman of the Ministry of Health said Friday. Yet China's A/H1N1 vaccines are generally safe as the incidence rate of reported rarely seen abnormal reactions was only 1.3 in 100,000, said Liu Dawei, an official in charge of vaccination with the Chinese Center for Disease Co...
The CDC also stressed that the estimated ranges of case, hospitalizations and deaths generated by this method provide a sense of scale in terms of the burden of disease caused by H1N1. However, the methodology was "not a predictive tool and cannot be used to forecast the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths that will occur going forward over the course of the pandemic because they are base...
China is the first country in the world to issue a production license for A/H1N1 vaccines. The A/H1N1 influenza has killed 36 and infected more than 62,800 people as of Wednesday in the Chinese mainland, the Health Ministry said. The Chinese mainland reported 3,393 confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases in the 48 hours ending at 3 p.m. Wednesday, the ministry said. So far, nearly 75 percent of the patient...
