Experts Urge Greater Effort on Vaccine for Bird Flu
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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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International health experts called on Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to new cervical cancer vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million lives a year.
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Scientists say the number of cases of humans being infected with bird flu may have been underestimated.
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The World Health Organisation says international drug companies and governments must speed up production of bird flu vaccines or risk a pandemic which could kill thousands of people.
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The world has moved significantly closer to developing vaccines against a bird flu pandemic, but is still not able to make them in the amounts needed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Drug companies will not be able to make enough vaccine to prevent the next global flu pandemic, which health officials fear may be triggered by a viral strain originating in birds, a senior World Health Organisation official said today.
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A panel of experts will meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should approve Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine, which could become the first such product cleared for the U.S. market.
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TORONTO - Public health officials and vaccine manufacturers are trying to find ways to boost the supply of flu vaccine in preparation for a deadly new type of influenza virus.
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Building a stockpile of bird flu vaccine would help ensure poor countries do not lose out if a flu virus starts killing people worldwide, the World Health Organization's top flu official said Friday.
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World Health Organization experts helping Vietnam to battle a recurrence of bird flu said governments should be cautious about prematurely announcing they had beaten the disease, which has killed 27 people this year.
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Government scientists - sure that somewhere out there a bird flu virus has humanity&#39;s name on it - are speeding up efforts to understand how the viruses evolve and spread.
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While every human death from bird flu commands widespread attention, some experts are urging the world not to forget killer diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, which claim millions of lives each year.
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BANGKOK: Thailand plans to produce 100 million doses of bird flu vaccine to use on chickens if an outbreak that has left at least 11 people dead in the kingdom runs out of control, officials said Monday.
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Most health experts agree that Asian bird flu poses a grave danger and will likely spread unless urgent steps are taken. But some virologists caution that alarmist warnings could harm preparedness plans.
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Worried that tens of thousands of doses may go to waste, a federal advisory panel wants the government to ease restrictions on the nation&#39;s supply of flu vaccine.
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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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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.