WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Everyone in the United States over the age of six months should get seasonal influenza vaccines every year, federal vaccine advisers said on Wednesday. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made the long-awaited vote to recommend virtually universal flu vaccination -- something public health experts have long recommended. "The new recommendation seeks to remove barriers to influenza immunization and ...

A meningitis epidemic has killed 246 people in Burkina Faso since the start of the year, the health ministry announced Thursday. "From the beginning of the year 2010 to February 21, we have a total of 1,596 suspected cases of meningitis, with 246 deaths reported in all health districts" of the country, the ministry's director of the campaign ...

It is too early to declare that the peak of the global swine flu pandemic is over, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday. "The director-general decided that it was appropriate not to make any changes in the current pandemic phases right now," said Keiji Fukuda, special advisor to WHO chief Margaret Chan on pandemic influenza. The decision comes a day ...

It is too early to say that the swine flu pandemic has peaked in all parts of the world, the World Health Organisation's emergency committee said. "The Committee advised that it was premature to conclude that all parts of the world have experienced peak transmission of the H1N1 pandemic influenza," a spokesman said Tuesday, adding more "time and information ...