China’s science and health authorities have announced a new project to fight the H7N9 virus, and plan to develop a vaccine within seven months. The Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Health and...
Chinese health officials yesterday announced three severe respiratory infections, two of them fatal, from H7N9 influenza, a subtype that has not been known to infect humans before. The announcement of the H7N9...
On a reunified Korean Peninsula, a resident of a rural area in North Hamkyong Province relocates to a large city in South Korea to get a job. In North Korea, train stations and bus terminals are crowded with people...
The United Nations and its partners announced that Pakistan has become the first country in South Asia to introduce a new vaccine that protects children from pneumonia, the leading killer of children worldwide. The UN...
Countries in Southeast Asia are going through unprecedented economic growth despite global economic uncertainties. To be able to maintain this upward trend countries need to secure the health of their citizens _...
Most countries in Asia have yet to make the rotavirus vaccine part of their national immunization programme (NIP), despite a World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to do so. “Timely vaccination with one of the...
About 1.4 million children under 12 months of age will be vaccinated against five deadly diseases under a four-year program beginning in October, an official from the Ministry of Health said last week. The pentavalent...
Substantial over-diagnosis and mistreatment of malaria is evident in south and central Asia, according to research led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine . The authors warn that with more than two...
Viral hepatitis is responsible for one million deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization. In the next ten years, it can claim the lives of over five million people in Southeast Asia. “The vast...
The Hong Kong Government (HKG) has announced that will recommend the Re-5 H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) vaccine for use as an alternative for the already in use Intervet Nobilis H5N1 AI vaccine. Hong Kong maintains a...