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Experts advise WHO on pandemic vaccine policies and strategies
2009-10-30
World Health Organization
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, which advises WHO on policies and strategies for vaccines and immunization, devoted a session of its 27#29 October meeting to pandemic i...
Government of Canada is Working Closely with Provinces and Territories and International Partners to Address Swine Flu
2009-04-26
Health Canada
Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq and Chief Public Health Officer Dr. David Butler-Jones today assured Canadians that the federal government is working closely with the provinces and territories and i...
Swine flu illness in the United States and Mexico - update 2
2009-04-26
World Health Organization
On Saturday, 25 April, upon the advice of the Emergency Committee called under the rules of the International Health Regulations, the Director-General declared this event a Public Health Emergency of ...
Swine Flu in the Workplace: Top 4 questions & answers employers and employees need to know about H1N1
2009-09-08
Rubin Thomlinson LLP
Employment Lawyer Christine Thomlinson, outlines the top four questions her law firm, Rubin Thomlinson has been getting from employers and employees and the answers they have complied relating to the ...
Swine influenza: Statement by WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan
2009-04-27
World Health Organization
The WHO Director-General has raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from the current phase 3 to phase 4.The change to a higher phase of pandemic alert indicates that the likelihood of a pandemic...
Withdraw coercive flu shot policy: nurses
2012-11-14
BC Nurses' Union
The BC Nurses' Union is demanding BC health employers immediately withdraw their punitive policy on flu shots for healthcare workers, in light of scientific reviews questioning the credibility of the ...
World now at the start of 2009 influenza pandemic: Statement to the press by WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan
2009-06-11
World Health Organization
On the basis of available evidence, and these expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. The WHO has therefore decided to raise the level of i...

Sources Select Resources

Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
Wallace, Robert G.
Article
2017
Independent Science News
Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the...
Swine Flu Coverage Around the World
Article
2009
Pew Research Centre's Project for Excellence in Journalism
The swine flu story quickly topped the American media agenda when the story broke in late April. How did coverage in other countries compare with the U.S.? Was there any correlation between the number...

Government Ministries & Agencies

Health Canada
Health Canada is the Federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances.
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
The Ministry is leading the health system into the new millennium with a consumer-centred and decentralized structure that will better manage health resources. Integration of the Ministry's activitie...


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