Tamiflu Approved For Canadian Babies – Other Nations To Follow

Tamiflu Approved For Canadian Babies – Other Nations To Follow Canada has become one among numerous countries that are approving or researching whether infants less than one year of age should be administered the antiviral medication Oseltamivir or commercially referred to as Tamiflu. Canadian Government health officials announced that under certain treatment conditions infants who [...]

H1N1 Influenza Spreading Rapidly

H1N1 Influenza Spreading Rapidly – Tracking Cases Futile, Says WHO A report from the World Health Organization WHO stated that the H1N1 Influenza pandemic virus is now the most swiftly spreading pandemic virus to date and that asking member countries to survey statistical data on every case or even count new cases is futile. The [...]

H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine

Problems Creating H1N1 Vaccine Make For Tough Choices The World Health Organization [WHO] has proclaimed that frontline responders to any pandemic, primary health care workers, should receive priority when initial vaccine is made available for novel influenza A H1N1 virus. Pharmaceutical companies are in rapid pursuit of as much vaccine as possible to combat the [...]

Swine Flu in Pregnancy

Pregnant Women and Novel Influenza A (H1N1) As Of the last several months – June/July 2009 – There has been an alarm raised about women who are pregnant when they contract influenza A [H1N1] strain of the virus. It appears that women who are pregnant and especially those in their final trimester, have a higher [...]

H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Orders In Jeopardy?

H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Orders In Jeopardy? The Current H1N1 Influenza Virus pandemic is becoming more virulent each day as it continues to spread around the world at frighteningly rapid speed. Not only are health experts surprised at the rapidness of the viruses transmission but concern is growing in some countries that the H1N1 vaccine currently [...]