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Flu experts 'link' to drug firms

BBC News | Health | World Edition  Fri, 06/04/2010 - 05:28

Key scientists behind World Health Organization advice on stockpiling of pandemic flu drugs had financial ties with companies which stood to profit, an investigation has found.


 

Special Report: Surveillance Gap Slowed H1N1 Pandemic Response

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Fri, 09/18/2009 - 08:42

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Gaps in animal surveillance meant flu experts were blindsided when the pandemic H1N1 strain emerged from swine, experts said here.


 

It's Official: H1N1 Flu Is a Pandemic

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Thu, 06/11/2009 - 16:15

In a long-awaited move, the World Health Organization raised the flu pandemic alert, following an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva on Thursday


 

UK's attempts to stop swine flu called flawed

Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 05/21/2009 - 11:12

LONDON (AP) -- Flu experts are looking very closely at Britain - and some have decided that the U.K.'s swine flu-fighting tactics are seriously off the mark and may be hiding a much larger outbreak....


 

Experts: Don't try 'pox party' for swine flu

Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 05/06/2009 - 13:46

NEW YORK (AP) -- It seems logical: Why not try to get sick with swine flu now, and get some immunity in case it comes roaring back this fall in a deadlier form?

Sort of like those "pox parties" to get your kids exposed to a childhood disease. Bad idea, flu experts say.

It's too risky....