Officials with the World Health Organization have announced that the WHO's emergency committee will not meet this week to review the H1N1 pandemic and that it will not declare an end to the pandemic.

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The experts handling the H1N1 pandemic for the World Health Organization may wait until the end of August to reassess the outbreak’s status, according to WHO head Margaret Chan.

Two former World Health Organization consultants have said that communication missteps fueled accusations that the organization exaggerated the H1N1 threat in order to enrich pharmaceutical companies.

A recent study has indicated that mass media coverage of flu-related stories has actually helped to increase vaccination rates.

Two investigations suggesting that the World Health Organization exaggerated a pharmaceutical industry warning of the H1N1 flu becoming a pandemic have been rejected by scientists.

World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan fired back Tuesday in response to an investigative report recently published in British Medical Journal.

The Med Guru reports that the World Health Organization is under fire for declaring that the H1N1 virus was a pandemic.

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In a statement released on its website, the World Health Organization's Emergency Committee said on Tuesday that the worst of the H1N1 pandemic influenza outbreak that spread rapidly last summer appears to have passed, though it did not go so far as to ca

At the conclusion of their five-day meeting, World Health Organization delegates decreed that they will promote efforts to reduce the child morality rate, according to CIDRAP News.

Dr Margaret Chan

Reversing a downward trend, immunization rates are at their highest ever and vaccine development worldwide is booming, according to an assessment released Oct. 21 by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the World Bank.

CSL Limited, Australia’s leading biopharmaceutical company, has announced that it is donating 3 million doses of pandemic H1N1 2009 vaccine to the World Health Organization.

A cholera vaccine has proved to be safe and effective in young children in a part of India where the disease is endemic, a new study in The Lancet says.

PHILADELPHIA — Infectious disease experts are awaiting an infinitesimal event of momentous importance: the mutation of the H1N1 influenza virus.