The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Roche emergency use authorisation for its Realtime ready Influenza A/H1N1 Detection Set for the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.
20/11/2009
BioMérieux has adapted its molecular NucliSENS EasyQ Influenza A/B test to include the new A (H1N1) strain. The test is intended for research use only.
13/11/2009
RESEARCHERS from the University of Maryland have suggested the novel 2009 H1N1 influenza virus may outcompete human seasonal influenza viruses.
11/09/2009
THE Australian government has raised the H1N1 influenza pandemic alert from ‘delay’ to ‘contained’ as 11 cases of swine flu have now been confirmed across four Australian states.
22/05/2009
RESEARCHERS at the University of Rochester have developed a mathematical model to predict immune responses to infection with influenza A viruses, including novel viruses such as the emergent H1N1 influenza.
15/05/2009
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an American not-for-profit organisation, and its business partner, will seek US Food and Drug Administration approval for the emergency use of a new test to diagnose the 2009 H1N1 swine flu virus.
30/10/2009
Initial results from an ongoing US clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) demonstrate a robust immune response in healthy pregnant women following just one dose of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine.
03/11/2009
QUEENSLANDERS at most risk of complications from human swine influenza will be among the first to benefit from the vaccine rollout which begins across Australia today.
30/09/2009
Analytik Jena's molecular-genetic rapid test for direct identification of the H1N1 pathogen has been approved with immediate effect for in-vitro diagnostics.
10/12/2009
CSL has announced it will be starting human trials of its swine flu vaccine in the coming weeks.
20/07/2009
STERLIN has commented on the UK Health Protection Agency’s testing guidelines for H1N1 Influenza, believing its Copan’s Universal Transport Medium (UTM) meets the mark.
05/06/2009
Epidemiologists are conducting the first surveys to monitor for antibodies to the H1N1 influenza pandemic. The results hope to solve some of the great unknowns about the pandemic regarding how many people have been, or are currently, infected.
26/11/2009
THE VICTORIAN government is currently facing a tough decision as how to handle the current H1N1 influenza (swine flu) outbreak, with a pandemic plan which fails to fit the characteristics of the virus.
04/06/2009
N1H1 Influenza (Swine Flu) has a confirmed 279 cases in the United States, however, In Australia, of the 269 tested patients and 19 suspected cases, zero cases have been confirmed.
06/05/2009
THE CENTRES for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported additionally confirmed human infections of the Swine Influenza in the United States and internationally.
30/04/2009
THE FIRST case of H1N1 Influenza (Human Swine Flu) has been identified in Western Australia. A 30-year-old Perth man has become the first WA resident to test positive for the influenza.
25/05/2009
CSL LIMITED has announced it is donating three million doses of pandemic H1N1 2009 or ‘swine flu’ vaccine to the World Health Organisation.
14/10/2009
Longhorn Vaccines and Diagnostics has been granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Longhorn Influenza A/H1N1-09 Prime RRT-PCR Assay in CLIA high complexity laboratories.
25/02/2010
QUEENSLAND health has confirmed three crew members on the P&O cruise liner Pacific Dawn have tested positive for H1N1 influenza (human swine flu).
29/05/2009
THE WESTERN Australian Government has issued a statement asking all school children in the state who have recently travelled to Mexico, the United States, Canada, Japan and Panama to stay home from school for seven days.
25/05/2009