Flu undermines Spain's EU summit
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Flu forces the German and Italian leaders to miss a Barcelona summit arranged to promote the EU constitution.
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With less than a month to go before Spain holds the EU's first referendum on the European Constitution, not everyone is happy with the campaign.
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Â· PM steps up pressure ahead of EU/Africa summit Â· Portugal scrambles to salvage key meetings
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British health officials said Friday that their American counterparts were informed in mid-September that problems at a drug-manufacturing plant in northwest England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to ...
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WASHINGTON -- With increasing signs that bird flu is becoming established in Asia and a shortage of flu vaccine in America, health officials from several nations and more than a dozen vaccine companies plan to meet this month for an unprecedented summit
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World leaders have been flooding  President Bush with congratulatory calls since his reelection  victory, but at least one -- Spain's Jose Luis Rodriguez  Zapatero -- appears to be having trouble getting through.
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Government health officials tried to build their case for school closings and similar steps during a flu pandemic by showcasing new research Monday that suggests such measures seemed to work during the deadly Spanish flu of 1918.
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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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U.S. and British drug regulators met Thursday to discuss the closing of a flu-vaccine plant in northern England that has triggered an international vaccine shortage -- but there was no immediate resolution of the crisis.
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La Francia vorrebbe aumentare la sua influenza nel gruppo
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Nov 12, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The World Health Organization&#39;s top influenza expert warned at the end of a 2-day international meeting today that governments need to fund the development of vaccines to combat a feared flu pandemic that could kill millions
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Spain has recorded its first case of H5N1 bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said Friday. The deadly strain was found in a water fowl in a marsh area outside the northern city of Vitoria.
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Doctors have expressed concerns about the government's plans for a flu pandemic.
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This week: bird flu fears force Indonesia to cull poultry, oil spill threatens Spain and Gibraltar, Muslims celebrate holy festival, and more.
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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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An outbreak of bird flu on a farm run by Europe's biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard Matthews is the highly pathogenic H5N1 version of the virus which can kill humans, the European Commission said on Saturday.
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France and Spain were hit on Tuesday by a dioxin contamination scare that has forced the closure of almost 200 Dutch farms after the cancer-causing toxin was found in animal feed.