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Dr. Perry Kendall was enjoying a holiday in Mexico last spring when he heard about a new virus ripping through parts of Mexico and it looked like a killer. By Vancouver SunNovember 7, 2009 4:21 AM Dr. Perry Kendall was enjoying...
Helen Branswell THE CANADIAN PRESS Amid accusations that professional athletes are jumping the queue for flu shots, immunization clinics for vulnerable people face the prospect of closing because of a vaccine shortage. Twenty...
Fidel’s defining moments 1926: Castro is born in Mayarí, Oriente Province, eastern Cuba. Attends local Jesuit schools in Santiago de Cuba before studying at Belén, the elite high school in Havana. 1953: Having tried the life of...
The EU Parliament created a special committee to assess what caused the financial crisis and what effect it had on Member States. The committee has a 12 month mandate and will provide recommendations in a mid-year and end-year...
Reversing a downward trend, immunization rates are now at their highest ever and vaccine development worldwide is booming, according to a new assessment released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the...
Abuja — The Federal Government will by 2011 acquire the much sought pneumonia vaccine to curb the spread of pneumonia which has been identified as one of the biggest causes of child death in the world. Minister of State for...
GENEVA, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Monday jointly launched a comprehensive action plan to tackle pneumonia, the biggest cause of child deaths in the...
New York - The World Health Organization launched on Monday a programme to save 5.3 million children from dying of pneumonia by 2015, but the cumulative bill amounts to a whopping 39 billion dollars for a five-year period...
Fidel Castro has found something to sneeze at in Washington's decision to ease visits by Cuban-Americans to his island: he says more Americans mean more swine flu. The 83-year-old ex-president wrote in state-controlled...
All of Cuba's early cases of swine flu were from foreign visitors Cuba's former leader, Fidel Castro, has blamed the growth in swine flu on an increase in US visitors to the island. US President Barack Obama recently lifted...
