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6-year-old critical as city posts 1st serious child case of H1N1

Metro | Food
2009-11-21

THE Shanghai Health Bureau reported the city's fourth serious case of swine flu yesterday -- and the first child to be severely stricken by the disease. The 6-year-old boy was being treated last night at the Children's...

Vaccine threat rumor 'baseless'

National
2009-11-20

BEIJING health authorities said yesterday that swine flu shots would continue, dismissing rumors circulating over the mobile phone network that the program would be shut down. "The inoculations will not be suspended,"...

Doctor raises doubts over swine flu toll

National
2009-11-20

CHINA'S health watchdog is encouraging the public and news media to keep a close watch over how it controls the spread of swine flu after a prominent medical expert raised concern that fatality figures for the disease...

US officials defend swine flu vaccination plan

World
2009-11-18

US public health officials defended the distribution of swine flu vaccines yesterday against criticism that their plan to protect Americans was confusing and over-optimistic. Manufacturers have delivered 48.5...

Doctors say most Britons reject swine flu vaccine

World
2009-11-18

MORE than half of Britons being offered vaccination against pandemic H1N1 flu are turning it down because they fear side-effects or think the virus is too mild to bother, a survey of doctors showed today. Many...

H1N1 fears aid fake drug sales

World
2009-11-17

CRIMINAL gangs are making millions of dollars out of the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling fake flu drugs over the internet, a British Web security firm said yesterday. Sophos said it had intercepted hundreds of millions...

High alert: It's disease season

Metro | Health
2009-11-14

SHANGHAI has entered the key period for swine flu, seasonal flu and other infectious diseases, and medical authorities need to be on high alert to head off possibly deadly outbreaks, the Shanghai Health Bureau said...

Despite 2 deaths, H1N1 shots go on

National
2009-11-14

CHINA'S Ministry of Health said yesterday it will continue to advocate the use of swine flu vaccine even though two people died following inoculations. One of the deaths was from an apparently unrelated heart...

Antivirals can prevent bad cases of H1N1

World
2009-11-13

ANTIVIRAL medicines can prevent severe H1N1 flu and should be given to pregnant women, very young children and people with underlying medical problems who fall ill, a World Health Organization official said yesterday....

Swine-flu jabs: Shanghai sticks with game plan

Metro | Health
2009-11-9

SHANGHAI health officials said yesterday it was unnecessary to expand free swine-flu vaccinations to all the residents of the city. The policy of only vaccinating at-risk people like students, medical personnel...