The number of swine flu cases are increasingly rapidly in Australia, with a vaccine for the illness still a couple of months away.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Iranians chanted death to America and Israel on Thursday as some 2.
November 27, 2009, 5:40 amTwo patients who were infected by a swine flu mutation that was also recently detected in Norway have died in France, health officials say.
November 28, 2009, 6:27 amGENEVA (Reuters) - More than 1,000 deaths from the H1N1 swine flu virus were officially reported in the past week, a sharp rise which brings the global total to at least 7,826, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
November 28, 2009, 5:49 amIt may be a gruelling and at-times dangerous journey for Muslim pilgrims, but Brisbane man Omar Saghir says the Hajj last year was the most amazing experience of his life.
November 27, 2009, 12:13 pmVictoria's Country Fire Authority says a call out to a suspected gas leak in Central Victoria on Tuesday night was not what they were expecting.
November 26, 2009, 10:42 amMECCA, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - A day-long downpour fouled the start of the annual hajj on Wednesday, soaking thousands of people as they walked from Mecca to Mina, snarling traffic and stranding buses for hours.
November 26, 2009, 7:18 am
The heaviest rain to hit Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage in years soaked the faithful and flooded the road to Mecca.
November 26, 2009, 6:16 amHONG KONG (Reuters) - China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said.
November 25, 2009, 11:35 pmThe world's largest annual religious pilgrimage has begun, overshadowed by the swine flu pandemic as 2.5 million Muslims amassed in Mecca for the hajj.
November 25, 2009, 9:05 pm
BEIJING (Reuters) - The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country's best-performing asset this year.
November 25, 2009, 8:39 pm
An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have converged on Mecca for the annual haj pilgrimage.
November 25, 2009, 8:50 am
GENEVA (AFP) - An unusual number of severe allergic reactions to swine flu vaccinations have been recorded in Canada, where a batch of the vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been recalled, the WHO said on Tuesday.
November 25, 2009, 3:45 am
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is looking into reports in Britain and the United States that the H1N1 flu may have developed resistance to Tamiflu in people with severely suppressed immune systems, a spokesman said Tuesday.
November 25, 2009, 1:41 amAn unusual number of allergic reactions to swine flu vaccinations have been recorded in Canada, where a batch of the vaccine has been recalled, the WHO says.
November 25, 2009, 12:16 am
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is looking into reports in Britain of the likely spread of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu, the U.N. agency said on Tuesday.
November 24, 2009, 11:37 pm
PARIS (AFP) - It would normally be unthinkable -- but it is just possible that holders Barcelona will become the first winners since the 1993 introduction of the Champions League format not to survive the group stages.
November 24, 2009, 9:22 pm
The Premier, Colin Barnett has played down concerns that problems in the health system are putting the forecast budget surplus in doubt.
November 24, 2009, 3:40 pmASTANA (Reuters) - Uzbekistan has closed its border with central Asian neighbor Kazakhstan to all but citizens of each nation returning home, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said on Monday, as swine flu spreads in both countries.
November 23, 2009, 11:09 pm
Swine flu vaccines are still effective despite reported cases of mutations in the A(H1N1) virus, health experts in Europe and North America said.
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