http://www1.apan-info.net Virtual Information Center en-US Virtual Information Center apanaccessreqs@apan-info.net Japan on Monday started vaccinating medical workers against H1N1 flu, which is known to have killed 27 people in the country, the health ministry said.  The country has a limited supply of the domestically-made vaccine, with doses for about 1.18 million people available in the first batch as Japan heads into the autumn-winter flu season, a ministry official said.  http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13096/Default.aspx JTagorda Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:36:28 GMT http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13096/Default.aspx Taipei - A Taiwan company Thursday launched what it called the world’s first spray capable of destroying the swine flu virus. VirusBom costs 350 Taiwan dollars ($10) and can be used 700 times, Money Marketing Communication representative said. It contains a chemical compound that can destroy many kinds of bacteria and viruses, including the H1N1 swine flu strain, company representative Heidi Wang said. http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13043/Default.aspx heather.walker Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:29:24 GMT http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13043/Default.aspx Thirteen swine flu deaths, 10 in Maharashtra alone, were reported on Thursday in the country, taking the total toll to 329, health authorities said in New Delhi. Also, a record 142 fresh cases were reported in the country, taking the number of people affected with the flu to 10,375. While three deaths were reported from Maharashtra, that tops the chart of recording the maximum deaths in the country Thursday, seven deaths that had occurred earlier were found to be due to the contagious virus, health authorities said. http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13042/Default.aspx heather.walker Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:28:10 GMT http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13042/Default.aspx TAIPEI, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Taiwan Wednesday reported seven new patients suffering from A/H1N1 influenza had been sent to hospital, bringing the island's serious cases total to 305, local epidemic control authorities said. So far, the virus has claimed 18 lives on the island, and 257 people have been discharged from hospital, the authorities said. Yang Zhiliang, head of Taiwan's health authority, said Wednesday the locally produced A/H1N1 flu vaccines were still undergoing trials. http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13035/Default.aspx heather.walker Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:22:43 GMT http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13035/Default.aspx Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Japan plans to spend 138.5 billion yen ($1.5 billion) to buy swine flu vaccines for as many as 77 million people by March 31, health ministry officials said. Japan will purchase enough doses domestically for 27 million people and import quantities for 50 million, the ministry said in a statement today. The overseas supplies will come from GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Novartis AG, Yasuyuki Takai, head of the ministry’s food and drug department, told reporters at a briefing in Tokyo with Health Minister Akira Nagatsuma. http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13034/Default.aspx heather.walker Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:20:46 GMT http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/1755/ArticleID/13034/Default.aspx