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AUSTRALIA'S FLU SEASON HAS U.S. HEALTH OFFICIALS BRACING FOR A BAD WINTER, AND WANTING A NEW VACCINE
As we prepare for a potentially severe influenza season, we must consider whether our current vaccines can be improved, Fauci and his coauthors wrote... READ MORE›
IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN 200 YEARS TO CLOSE THE WORKPLACE EQUALITY GAP. HERE'S WHY IT'S GETTING WORSE.
It may take women around the world more than two centuries to achieve workplace equality, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum... READ MORE›
FLU VACCINE USED THIS YEAR 'WASN'T UP TO IT'
Influenza NSW Health Minister says current vaccine 'not up to the job' after deadly flu season... READ MORE›
MOROCCO SENDS MEDICAL AID TO MADAGASCAR TO RELIEVE PLAGUE
Morocco said Sunday it will send emergency medical aid to Madagascar to relieve the pneumonic plague epidemic that hit the country... READ MORE›
WHO WORKS TO CONTAIN PLAGUE THAT HAS KILLED 94 ON MADAGASCAR
GENEVA - A plague epidemic has killed 94 people on the island of Madagascar and could spread further, the World Health Organization said on Friday... READ MORE›
NSW TEEN NATHAN BROWN DIES FROM COMPLICATIONS DURING HORROR FLU SEASON
As of September 15, 288 influenza-associated deaths have been registered or reported to state public health units, a spokesman for NSW Health told AAP... READ MORE›
2. WHAT HAPPENED IN CHINA OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS?
As well as in mainland China, infections have been detected in Hong Kong, Macau and among travelers who had been in the mainland... READ MORE›
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BILL GATES: BIOTERRORISM COULD KILL MORE THAN NUCLEAR WAR -- BUT NO ONE IS READY TO DEAL WITH IT
In his New England Journal of Medicine article, Gates said the United States's last epidemic simulation took place in 2001... READ MORE›
30MN PEOPLE DEAD IN A YEAR
Gates said the link between health security and international security is underestimated adding that governments are not paying enough attention to this threat... READ MORE›
BIRD FLU HITS FRENCH FOIE GRAS INDUSTRY AT BUSIEST TIME OF YEAR
This virus has never been detected in humans, unlike other strains, but millions of farm birds were slaughtered in Asia in 2014 before it arrived in Europe... READ MORE›
CANADA UNVEILED AS THE COUNTRY WITH 'THE BEST REPUTATION' IN SURVEY ON GLOBAL PERCEPTIONS
The North American country reclaimed the top spot in the Reputation Institute's annual report which looks at the government environment and economy of 55 nations... READ MORE›
'LOW SEVERITY' BIRD FLU CASE AT HAMPSHIRE FARM
A 1km poultry movement restriction zone has been imposed and the birds at the commercial chicken breeding farm will be culled, Defra said... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
WE HAVE BAD NEWS FOR YOU IF YOU'RE THINKING OF MOVING TO CANADA
Pic.twitter.com 0szNGWyUhF ...Canada legalised same-sex marriage in 2005... READ MORE›
THE BRITON VYING TO BECOME THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL DOCTOR
David Nabarro has called himself 'a doer who delivers', but what can he do to cure the World Health Organisation's many ills?... READ MORE›
AID GROUPS AIM TO PUT MENTAL HEALTH ON WORLD AGENDA
Good mental health care is scarce in many parts of the United States, but it is nonexistent in most of the world... READ MORE›
1 PERSON DEAD OF FLU, 115 CONFIRMED CASES SO FAR IN OTTAWA
From Sept. 1 to Jan. 3 there were 115 confirmed cases of influenza in the city, according to Ottawa Public Health... READ MORE›
MERS, EBOLA, BIRD FLU: SCIENCE'S BIG MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
Mers ebola bird flu science's big missed opportunities... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS IS NO LONGER A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY, UN HEALTH AGENCY SAYS
If anything, this has been escalated in importance by becoming activities that will be continued in the long-term in the World Health Organization, he said... READ MORE›
INDIA SWINE FLU DEATH TOLL RISES ABOVE 1,000 THIS YEAR
India appears to be in the grip of a swine flu outbreak with 1,094 recorded deaths over the past eight months, said an official report on Wednesday... READ MORE›
EBOLA: WHO UNDER FIRE OVER RESPONSE TO EPIDEMIC
Unexpected And the very planning that went into preparing for an influenza pandemic seems have to worked against the WHO during West Africa's Ebola outbreak... READ MORE›
ON CLIMATE CHANGE NOT A SCIENTIST NOT ENOUGH FOR SOME U.S. REPUBLICANS
12 and is recovering from the illness in self-isolation, said the Public Health Agency of Canada... READ MORE›
WHO TO HOLD EMERGENCY MEETING MONDAY ON ZIKA VIRUS
But the WHO never declared a public health emergency with other viruses, such as MERS, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Adalja said... READ MORE›
SUICIDE RATE IS HIGHEST IN EUROPE
Almost 800,000 deaths by suicide occurred in 2015, according to World Health Statistics, a publication from the World Health Organization WHO ... READ MORE›
'FREE RANGE' CHRISTMAS TURKEYS COOPED UP IN BARNS UNDER EMERGENCY BIRD FLU MEASURES
This is a precautionary measure to help reduce the risk from a strain of avian flu circulating in mainland Europe... READ MORE›
BRITAIN AND US STEP UP MEASURES TO COMBAT SPREAD OF VIRUS
Ebola crisis Britain and US step up measures to combat spread of virus... READ MORE›
PANELS ADVISE BOLSTERING WHO FOR CRISES LIKE EBOLA
Problems with outbreak preparedness reach far beyond the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
WHO ZIKA NO LONGER A WORLD HEALTH EMERGENCY
The gambusia eat the larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is the one most responsible for the spread of the Zika Virus... READ MORE›
THINKING ABOUT GETTING THE 2016 FLU VACCINE? HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
The influenza vaccine is formulated annually because seasonal flu viruses undergo continuous genetic mutation and the vaccine needs to match the major circulating strains... READ MORE›
HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS BIRD FLU STRAIN FOUND AT DUTCH FARM
Agricultural inspectors started destroying the 150,000 chickens at the farm in the village of Hekendorp, and banned poultry transport across the whole of the Netherlands... READ MORE›
EXPERTS CRITICISE WHO DELAY IN SOUNDING ALARM OVER EBOLA OUTBREAK
The most egregious failure was by WHO in the delay in sounding the alarm, said Prof Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute... READ MORE›
FLU WARNING ISSUED AS REPORTED CASES SOAR
Swine flu is only one of four strains of influenza circulating, according to Robert Booy from the University of Sydney... READ MORE›
WHAT WILL THE NEXT EPIDEMIC BE? WORLD NOT PREPARED FOR ANOTHER DISEASE LIKE EBOLA OR ZIKA, STUDY FINDS
A study published Monday in the medical journal BMJ concluded that the world is collectively grossly underprepared for future disease outbreaks... READ MORE›
BIRD FLU CASES SURGED THIS SEASON, BUT HUMAN RISK REMAINS LOW
The number of people infected in China exceed previous seasons, said Dr. Wenqing Zhang, head of the Global Influenza Program at the WHO... READ MORE›
Public health experts say the probability of a pandemic --a worldwide epidemic of a new and deadly disease -- is 100 percent... READ MORE›
Last month one woman in Hong Kong became infected with the virus after she traveled to a wet market in mainland China... READ MORE›