Topic: Contagious and Infectious Diseases
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Health Ministry is probing a report in a domestic newspaper that faulty vaccines in northern Shanxi province were responsible for killing four children and making dozens of others sick. China has been beset by a series of product safety scandals over the past few years. At least six children died in 2008 after drinking milk contaminated ...
The U.N. health agency said Wednesday it has suspended its approval of a vaccine against tetanus and four other diseases produced by Sanofi-Aventis SA subsidiary because of a white substance forming inside some vials. The World Health Organization and the manufacturer of the Shan5 vaccine are investigating the sediment which is "sticking to the glass inside the vials," said ...
The first outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu in Europe for a year has been identified in a backyard poultry farm in Romania, the European Commission said Tuesday. The outbreak, in Tulcea county, close to the Ukrainian border, was discovered on Monday and prompted immediate security measures, the EU's executive arm said in a statement. These include the ...
