A day after the announcement of the World Health Organization on swine flu or Influenza A H1N1 as pandemic, Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG announced (on Friday) that it has successfully produced the first batch of Influenza A (H1N1) vaccine. According to Novartis, the first batch of 10 liters of wild type Influenza A (H1N1) vaccine will be used [...]
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Novartis completes first batch of Swine Flu vaccine
Posted in Health, tagged flu vaccine, Influenza, Influenza A H1N1, Influenza vaccine, Novartis, swine flu vaccine on June 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
WHO raises Influenza Pandemic alert to phase 6
Posted in Health, News, tagged DOH, Francisco Duque, H1N1, Influenza A H1N1, Pandemic alert 6, Swine Flu, WHO, WHO alert on June 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan raised the Influenza Pandemic alert from Phase 5 to Phase 6 “on the basis of available evidence, and expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. The world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic,” she said at [...]

