WHO to give H1N1 jab guidance on Monday at latest

Reuters
Friday, July 10, 2009

The World Health Organisation (WHO) plans to hold a media briefing on Friday or on Monday to issue guidance about the need for a H1N1 influenza jab, a WHO spokeswoman said.

“The recommendations are still in the process of being developed,” Fadela Chaib told a news briefing in Geneva, where the United Nations agency is based.

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Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO director of the Initiative for Vaccine Research, would give a news briefing once the recommendations emerging from the closed-door WHO meeting on Tuesday are approved by WHO Director-General Margaret Chan.

The WHO raised its influenza pandemic alert to the highest level on June 11 in response to the worldwide spread of H1N1, a newly discovered virus strain commonly known as swine flu.

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