THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has shown concern about the rapid spread of swine flu in Australia in the wake of the National Pandemic Emergency Committee meeting.
12/06/2009
A TRIAL of swine flu vaccine in children has begun in Australia with the results to be known within weeks.
12/08/2009
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
AFTER only two weeks of receiving a genetic construct from Protein Sciences Corporation the University of Queensland (UQ) has produced Australia's first batch of a new candidate vaccine against the H1N1 swine flu virus.
30/06/2009
PUBLIC health officials will meet today to decide who will get swine flu vaccine first when it becomes available.
06/08/2009
Synbiosis’ ProtoCOL2 automatic zone measuring system is claimed to increase the speed of testing of H1N1 swine flu virus vaccine potency.
22/10/2009
CSL has announced it will be starting human trials of its swine flu vaccine in the coming weeks.
20/07/2009
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
THE CENTRES for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported additionally confirmed human infections of the Swine Influenza in the United States and internationally.
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
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an American not-for-profit organisation, and its business partner, will seek US Food and Drug Administration approval for the emergency use of a new test to diagnose the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus.
30/10/2009
QUEENSLANDERS at most risk of complications from human swine influenza will be among the first to benefit from the vaccine rollout which begins across Australia today.
30/09/2009
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 UNITED States government has warned the country to brace for the full onslaught of Swine flu, revealing significant gaps in the nation's planning as they turn to Australia for help.
10/08/2009
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
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
THE FIRST case of H1N1 Influenza (Human Swine Flu) has been identified in Western Australia. A 30-year-old Perth man has become the first WA resident to test positive for the influenza.
25/05/2009
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
N1H1 Influenza (Swine Flu) has a confirmed 279 cases in the United States, however, In Australia, of the 269 tested patients and 19 suspected cases, zero cases have been confirmed.
06/05/2009
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