THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released “Influenza: Developing Drugs for Treatment and Prophylaxis,” a draft guidance for industry.
06/03/2009
THE Australian government has raised the H1N1 influenza pandemic alert from ‘delay’ to ‘contained’ as 11 cases of swine flu have now been confirmed across four Australian states.
22/05/2009
THE VICTORIAN government is currently facing a tough decision as how to handle the current H1N1 influenza (swine flu) outbreak, with a pandemic plan which fails to fit the characteristics of the virus.
04/06/2009
Epidemiologists are conducting the first surveys to monitor for antibodies to the H1N1 influenza pandemic. The results hope to solve some of the great unknowns about the pandemic regarding how many people have been, or are currently, infected.
26/11/2009
THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) believes monitoring outbreaks from different parts of the world provides sufficient information to suggest how the influenza pandemic might evolve in the coming months.
07/09/2009
THE SWINE Flu has seemingly spread across the world faster than you can say avian pandemic, but what is the actual situation?
29/04/2009
THE US DEPARTMENT of Health and Human Services , Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (HHS, BARDA) has invested $US486m ($A716m) into the development and production of a pandemic flu vaccine.
16/01/2009
TODAY Australia will embark on what is potentially the biggest vaccination program in its history, offering free pandemic (swine flu) vaccine to every person in the country.
01/10/2009
AUSTRALIA'S independent medicines' regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has announced it will register the CSL pandemic influenza (swine flu) vaccine.
22/09/2009
THE TRANSLATIONAL Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has announced it is assisting the American state and federal authorities in an effort to prevent a swine flu pandemic in the country.
30/04/2009
QUEENSLAND health has confirmed three crew members on the P&O cruise liner Pacific Dawn have tested positive for H1N1 influenza (human swine flu).
29/05/2009
PUBLIC health officials will meet today to decide who will get swine flu vaccine first when it becomes available.
06/08/2009
THE COMMONWEALTH Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, has this week received some preliminary trial data from the adult human Panvax (pandemic influenza vaccine) trials, conducted by Australian company, CSL.
21/08/2009
RESEARCHERS at the University of Melbourne, Australia have identified a human vaccine against Bird Flu. The scientists have found that boosting T cell immunity could better protect humans from a bird flu pandemic.
16/03/2009
CSL LIMITED has announced it is donating three million doses of pandemic H1N1 2009 or ‘swine flu’ vaccine to the World Health Organisation.
14/10/2009