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NEWS SCAN: Flu vaccine in pregnancy, flu in California, risk-benefit of pulled flu vaccine, GAO anthrax probe, Asian dengue threat

Sep 16, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: Plague and climate change, airport scare, Tamiflu and toddlers, flu conference, H1N1 vaccine uptake

Sep 7, 2010

 

CDC: E coli down, most other foodborne illnesses level

(CIDRAP News) – E coli O157:H7 was the comparative bright spot today in a federal report that showed little change in the incidence of most foodborne illnesses in 2009.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: Wild birds and H5N1, new pathogen mapping tool, Salmonella and HIV

Apr 13, 2010

 

European hearing airs WHO pandemic response, critics' charges

(CIDRAP News) – Officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) and a vaccine-maker trade group at a public hearing today defended themselves against allegations from some European politicians that they exaggerated the H1N1 pandemic threat to benefit drug companies.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Avian flu case in Egypt, H5N1 inhibitor, H7N7 in Germany, unvaccinated kids, London's pan-flu plan

Apr 15, 2009

 

NEWS SCAN: Flu antivirals, animal-disease spread, India adds labs, flu hits islands, handwashing and MRSA, climate and bluetongue

 

Chan warns economic crisis may worsen disease threats

(CIDRAP News) – The global economic crisis and climate change are taking their toll on world health and may threaten the recognition and control of infectious diseases, Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said today at a global health forum.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in kids, meningitis vaccine, rare malaria, TB genotyping, E coli in water, food safety, livestock tracking, climate change

Mar 12, 2009

 

Obama joins calls for improving US food safety regime

CIDRAP News – President Barack Obama called today for a "complete review" of the operations of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the wake of the ongoing outbreak of Salmonella in peanuts and peanut butter.

Maryn McKenna
 

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