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Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic
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Article: Brazil launches massive operation against flu
10-03-2010
This week Brazil begins a massive inoculation drive to thwart the influenza virus A(H1N1). Internet will, for the first time ever, play a role in the country's health campaign. Brazil's Health Minister José Gomes Temporão...
Video: A(H1N1) pandemic not yet over
05-03-2010
Winter, the season when flu epidemics occur, is nearly over in the Northern Hemisphere. The number of people who died during the A(H1N1) pandemic in this part of the world is no more than the average number of fatalities caused by...
Radio Show: France offloads its swine flu vaccines
04-01-2010
Network Europe - 4 January 2010: Surplus to requirements - France offloads its swine flu vaccines; Leadership battle - as Spain takes over the EU presidency who exactly is in charge? High security or low on ideas? Will airport body...
Article: Flu fiction: 'No happy Christmas for vaccinated children'
22-12-2009
There are persistent rumours about the the vaccine and medicines for Mexican (H1N1) flu. Especially on the Internet, its hard to distinguish between sense and nonsense. In this series of articles Radio Netherlands Worldwide attempts to...
Article: Press Review Monday 23 November 2009
23-11-2009
All the papers report on vaccination day: at least one million children and their family members have been called up to be vaccinated against influenza A(H1N1) in 250 centres set up across the country.
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