H1N1 is back with a vengence
So far this year, 12,500 people have been infected with the influenza A (H1N1) virus in India, of which 600 have died. According to official data, Maharashtra alone has registered…
Category: Pandemic
New way to develop influenza A vaccine
Precious time lost in developing an effective vaccine against influenza A viruses that jump from animals to humans and spread across the world causing a pandemic is quite close to…
Editorial: Thinking after acting
Published in The Hindu on December 26, 2011 The United States government, which funded two teams of scientists to research if the H5N1 influenza virus has the potential to trigger…
Editorial: WHO and conflicts of interest
Published in The Hindu on June 14, 2010 A year after the World Health Organisation declared an Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, a joint investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and…
Pandemic lessons to be learnt
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is planning to review its response to H1N1 once the pandemic is over. Several European countries have accused it of exaggeration. With the world nervously…
Editorial: Pandemic vaccine is safe
Published in The Hindu on December 23, 2009 The recent announcement by the World Health Organisation that no serious and unexpected adverse effects have been seen in the nearly 65…
Editorial: Misplaced vaccine safety fears
Published in The Hindu on September 5, 2009 Since its outbreak in April, the influenza A(H1N1) virus has spread to many countries and become the dominant influenza strain round the…
