WHO to hold summit on producing flu vaccine
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The World Health Organization has invited Sanofi-Aventis SA, the world&#39;s biggest maker of flu vaccine, and 15 other companies to join government health officials in planning how to produce
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Top health officials with the Bush administration are fanning out across the country this week to quell rising anxiety over the flu vaccine shortage, asserting that there will
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GENEVA -- The World Health Organization yesterday urged governments to provide funds to drug makers developing vaccines against a feared influenza pandemic which could kill millions.
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The World Health Organization has called an unprecedented summit of flu vaccine makers and nations next week to expand plans for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged governments to provide funds to drug makers developing vaccines against a feared influenza pandemic, which could kill millions of people.
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TORONTO (CP) - The World Health Organization, key countries and major flu vaccine makers agreed Friday there is an urgent need to push forward with production and licensing of trial batches of pandemic influenza vaccine.
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NEW YORK - If the United States wants to avoid future shortages of flu vaccine it must take steps to draw drug companies back into the business of making the inoculations, flu experts say. In a bad year, the stakes could be higher than just saving people from fever, headaches and a runny nose...
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WHO calls for every country in the world to make plans to deal with an inevitable influenza pandemic that is likely to be triggered by the bird flu virus that hit Asia this year.
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Saying the world is nowhere near ready to fight a global epidemic of influenza, a panel convened by the World Health Organization demanded yesterday that there be greater international cooperation and financing to develop a vaccine.
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. Officials of the Chiron corporation plan to testify before Congress about the manufacturing problems in a British factory preventing the company from releasing its flu vaccine to the public.
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WASHINGTON - It is unlikely that any of the nearly 50 million doses of influenza vaccine being held at a plant in England will be found safe and released to the United States, the head of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
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join representatives of16 vaccine companies on Nov. 111 for a summit in Geneva, Switzerland on a potential flu pandemic. The influenza chief of the United Nations&#39; health agency, the World Health Organization
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A panel convened by the World Health Organization demanded that there be greater international cooperation and financing to develop a vaccine.
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Health ministers and officials from 13 countries are meeting in the Thai capital, Bangkok to try to fight a growing threat from bird flu.
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ATLANTA -- A top US health official on Monday told senior citizens and other &quot;at-risk&quot; groups to relax about the flu vaccine shortage.
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With worries growing about a possible flu pandemic, the World Health Organisation has called an unprecedented summit meeting for Nov. 11 in Geneva, Switzerland, to draft response plans in the event of a global
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TORONTO - In the wake of yet another avian influenza death in Thailand, the World Health Organization urged countries with flu vaccine production capacity and their manufacturers to speed up work on trial vaccines against the highly deadly H5N1 virus.