Nasal spray flu vaccine reduces the influenza “attack rate” in children by 55 percent when compared with a group of children who received the traditional flu shot in the arm or thigh.
The UK Food Standards Agency investigation into Avian flu (bird flu) has said that it has gathered sufficient information to conclude that product held temporarily in the Bernard Matthews cold stores at Holton and Chesterfield does not contain meat from a restricted zone in Hungary, which would have made it illegal to enter the food chain.
Several of the nation?s top experts in pandemic, bioterrorism, and disaster readiness will be on hand next week at the premier annual gathering of preventive medicine and public health leaders to discuss public health preparedness and response efforts at the national, state, and local levels.
There has been no positive case of bird flu in Rajasthan, India, so far due to migratory birds coming across from Pakistan, a state animal husbandry official said on Monday, reported by PTI.
Data exclusivity — the granting of exclusive rights to commercial companies over clinical and preclinical trial data — could jeopardize efforts to create generic versions of life-saving medicines and harm public health, says Karin Timmermans of the World Health Organization (WHO) in an essay in PLoS Medicine.
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today unveiled new workplace safety and health guidance that will help employers prepare for an influenza pandemic.
Following a confirmed outbreak of H5N1 avian flu virus on a turkey farm near Lowestoft in Suffolk, various restrictions have been put in place.
A 20 yrs. old Indonesian woman died from the avian influenza virus – H5N1 bird flu virus, in west Java on saturday night after undergoing a two-day treatment for bird flu symptoms.
A 20 yrs. old Indonesian woman died from the avian influenza virus – H5N1 bird flu virus, in west Java on saturday night after undergoing a two-day treatment for bird flu symptoms.
UK Environment Secretary David Miliband says that there was a lapse in bio-security at Suffolk poultry farm of Bernard Matthews company in England.