News tagged with 'WHO'

Health, Safety and Consumer headlines for Friday, June 25.

The World Health Organization has just approved GlaxoSmithKline's latest swine flu vaccine, made with adjuvants, to be used in developing countries.

Novartis has had a new seasonal flu vaccine fast-tracked by the FDA. Meanwhile a larger than normal number of bacterial infections is being seen among people who have had the swine flu, underscoring the need to monitor a patient's vaccine schedule.

Canadian researchers find getting a seasonal flu shot may double your chances of getting the swine flu. The results, yet unpublished, are causing a buzz in the public health community worldwide.

It is now thought to be possible one day to reduce the risk of contracting HIV with a vaccine after the largest clinical trial ever held cut the infection rate by 32 percent.

The World Health Organization says the swine flu is "unstoppable" and that healthcare workers should be the first ones vaccinated. This influenza is different from seasonal flu in that it affects young people, the severely obese, and adults and strikes deep in the lungs and drug makers are receiving millions to formulate a vaccine. 

Children of parents who refuse pertussis immunizations, also known as whooping cough, are at a greater risk for developing the disease compared to vaccinated children, finds a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.

New test results among adults suggests a degree of pre-existing immunity to the novel H1N1 strain exists, especially in adults 60 or older, writes CDC researchers in this weeks Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The death of a New York City assistant principal from swine flu bring the U.S. death toll to 6, while the World Health Organization meets in Geneva to discuss how pharmaceutical companies can patent the virus to developing a vaccine.

Mexico City is imposing new rules that keep people away from each other in normally crowded places such as restaurants and movie theatres -  all to stop the spread of the swine flu that has killed 42 in that country. 

Influenza experts are on alert and standby in case they are needed to advise the World Health Organization. The influenza is confirmed in 331 people. Ten have died.  In the U.S., the CDC there are 141 cases and one confirmed death.

Patient Zero, a Mexican boy who lives near an industrialized pig farm, has been identified as the first person to have the swine flu which he contracted back in March.  Meanwhile, a toddler from Mexico has become the first U.S. casualty of the H1N1 influenza. 

The language "good manufacturing practices" were "used to segregate" any potential allergens, can be found on the labels of many products at Whole Foods Market. Only the claim is untrue finds an investigation by the Chicago Tribune.

Whole Foods Market issued a voluntarily recall of 1.2 million pounds of fresh ground beef in 21 states due to possible E. Coli contamination. Seven customers in Massachusetts have been reported ill from a strain of E. Coli and people in 11 other states and Canada.