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On June 11, 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised the H1N1 pandemic status to level six, indicating an international pandemic.

The British Veterinary Association has called on Defra to abandon its plans for a new animal health body that will give responsibility for animal health to an independent board and leave responsibility for animal welfare with ministers.

The first H1N1 infection found to be resistant to the antiviral drug Tamiflu represents an isolated case with no current implications for public health, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.

Bethseda, Maryland - The influenza virus of 1918-1919 founded a viral dynasty that persists to this day - in fact, we've been living in a pandemic era ever since, according to scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases .

A new survey shows most Canadian businesses are not prepared for a major swine flu outbreak.

GlaxoSmithKline and Roche, two major pharmaceutical companies, have had sizeable sales increases during the first quarter of 2009.

Indonesia's health minister confirmed on Wednesday the country's first cases of the H1N1 flu virus after an Indonesian pilot in Jakarta and a British woman in the resort island of Bali tested positive for the virus.

People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. * The Centers for Disease Control has determined that swine flu is contagious and is spread from human to human.

The best ways of managing patients with H5N1 infection are debated by experts in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine.

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that the H1N1 virus was stable and there was no sign yet of it mixing with other influenza viruses.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says this country is free of avian flu, which had plagued farms in British Columbia earlier this year.

China defended its curbs on exports of industrial raw materials against unfair-trade complaints by the United States and the European Union - and announced that it has filed its own challenge to a U.S. ban on imports of Chinese poultry.

Sinovac Biotech Ltd. , a leading developer and provider of vaccines in China, announced today that the Company received the first order in China to supply its influenza A vaccine to the Beijing government.

According to a report published today, we must all share responsibility for preventing the spread of diseases such as swine flu, SARS, avian influenza, diarrhoeal and skin diseases, and even the common cold.

Researchers from Georgia suggest that the cell-signaling protein, interferon type 1, reduced H5N1 influenza virus replication in mice and may offer some degree of protection in the early stages of infection.

Jun 19, 2009 - Studies performed in three animal models confirmed the safety and intensive immunogenicity of a new type of intranasal H5N1 influenza vaccine, according to the latest preclinical study data announced today by the Vienna based firm, Avir Green Hills Biotechnology.

The drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis will donate millions of doses of a vaccine that offers protection against the H1N1 virus to the WHO once the vaccine is ready, the company's chief executive officer announced Tuesday, Reuters reports .

The biggest threat to the global airline industry isna t the swine flu outbreak, according to AirAsia Bhd.a s Tony Fernandes .

In a typical flu season, the Winnipeg hospitals where Dr. Anand Kumar works might see one, maybe two life-threatening cases of viral pneumonia caused by influenza.