Topic: Dick Thompson
Swine flu vaccine won't be ready in time for coming Southern Hemisphere winterThe Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. "We have a concern there might be some sort of reassortment and that's something we'll ...
And in the United States, President Barack Obama said more of the country's 132,000 schools may have to be shuttered.At airports from Japan to South Korea to Greece and Turkey, thermal cameras were trained on airline passengers to see ...
Recalculation more than halves the estimate of people with malariaThe World Health Organization halved its estimate of the number of people who get malaria each year, saying Thursday that better measurement techniques had cut the number from 500 million people to 247 ...
The latest instance of human-to-human transmission of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in Indonesia on Friday. Although seven people died in the cluster, Keiji Fukuda, coordinator of the World Health Organization's global influenza programme, said the virus that killed them did ...
Three human deaths from bird flu have been reported in Vietnam, in a second wave of the 2004 outbreak in southeast Asia. "We know that these people were infected with influenza type A H5," says Dick Thompson, a spokesman for the World ...
The World Health Organization Bird flu has now confirmed five deaths, while Vietnamese officials have blamed bird flu for the loss of another nine lives.. However, WHO officials are warning that the workers carrying out the slaughter may themselves be vulnerable to ...