Topic: Margaret Chan

Flu pandemic revealed flaws

Just three weeks after World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan assured the world that the type A (H1N1) flu pandemic was over and had not...
Measles, a highly contagious viral disease mostly affecting children, has been making a rapid come back, threatening to roll back the progress made...

WHO declares swine flu pandemic is over

The World Health Organisation on Tuesday declared the swine flu pandemic over, more than a year after the new virus spread around the world, sparking panic and killing thousands before fizzling out."The world is no longer in phase six of the ...

WHO chief says swine flu pandemic is over

World Health Organisation director general Margaret Chan announced Tuesday the end of the swine flu pandemic, more than a year after it was declared."The world is no longer in phase six of the pandemic alert. We are now moving into the ...

WHO chief says H1N1 flu virus has run its course

GENEVA (Reuters) - The H1N1 flu virus has run its course and the pandemic is over, the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday."We are now moving into the post-pandemic period," WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told a teleconference, sayin

WHO reassesses swine flu pandemic

Scientists from the World Health Organisation met on Tuesday over whether to recommend the lifting of the swine flu pandemic alert, an agency spokesman said.WHO chief Margaret Chan, who is expected to follow the recommendations of the emergency committee

WHO delays judgement on swine flu pandemic

Experts advising the World Health Organisation on whether to end the year-old swine flu pandemic alert could now meet as late as August, the agency's chief said on Wednesday.An emergency committee of 15 scientists headed by Australian infectious diseases
The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that her decisions about swine flu were not influenced by advisers' links to pharmaceutical ...
WHO chief rejects claim that swine flu decision was influenced by advisers' drug company linksThe head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday strongly rejected suggestions that her decisions about swine flu were influenced by advisers' links to pharm
The World Health Organisation received backing from member states Monday over its handling of the flu pandemic as WHO chief Margaret Chan said the world had been "lucky" with swine flu.As the WHO's annual assembly opened here, French Health Minister ...