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Health: New Zealand still experiencing ‘significant’ swine flu
New Zealand is still experiencing a significant level of swine flu, health authorities said Wednesday, despite the World Health Organization's declaration that the global...
Public health significance of H1N1 virus mutation detected in Norway
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has informed World Health Organization of a mutation detected in three H1N1 viruses. The viruses were isolated from...
GlaxoSmithKline to donate 50 million doses of pandemic H1N1 vaccine to World Health Organization
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to donate 50 million doses of pandemic H1N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization (WHO) under an agreement signed at WHO...
AON launches a new insurance cover for pandemic building closure
Companies can now insure themselves for costs incurred if their building or the vicinity is officially closed due to a pandemic. With an expected...
Questions / Answers – How do you know you have the flu ?
Vaccination programs against H1N1 swine flu are under way in the United States, China and Australia and will begin soon in parts of Europe.
As...
Ordinary flu jab may protect against H1N1
Mexican researchers say they have some evidence that the ordinary seasonal flu vaccine may offer some protection against the new pandemic H1N1...
Questions / Answers on U.S. H1N1 flu vaccination program
Vaccinations against the H1N1 swine flu virus began in the United States this week as part of the Obama administration's mass immunization effort to...
US swine flu vaccination began in Indiana and Tennessee
Healthcare workers in Indiana and Tennessee began getting the first U.S. pandemic H1N1 vaccines Monday as part of what the government hopes will be...
United Nations urges rich countries to share H1N1 vaccines to poorer nations
Rich countries should make more vaccine available to poorer nations where the H1N1 virus is starting to hit, U.N. health officials said on Sunday.
They...
New study shows Americans enthusiastic about H1N1 vaccine
Days before the swine flu vaccine becomes available, more than half of U.S. adults say they will get the vaccine for themselves and 75...
What you should know about your insurance coverage and the H1N1
The World Health Organization (WHO) is advising countries in the northern hemisphere to prepare for a second wave of pandemic spread. In many cities...
Swine flu infections still rising as second wave has begun
The second wave of swine flu has now begun, the chief medical officer (CMO) said on Thursday, as the latest figures showed that swine...
Swine flu to be treated no differently from any other illness by travel insurers
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has confirmed that swine flu will be treated no differently from any other illness by travel insurers. People...
Comment on the threat of a two-day strike by immigration officials (5th and 6th August)
Yet more bad luck for holidaymakers looking to jet off this summer with the news the UK Border Agency staff have voted for strike...
Mexico City offers insurance to bring back tourists
Mexico City on Tuesday introduced free insurance for tourists in a bid to bring back visitors scared away after the swine flu epidemic broke...
Swine flu – What does your travel insurance cover if people are affected ?
The ABI (Association of British Insurers) has issued the following information for travel insurance customers about the cover that most policies offer if people are affected by swine flu:
