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...doses, mostly to governments. At current capacity, they can produce around 900 million doses of H1N1 vaccine a year: a total that is "woefully inadequate for a world of 6.8 billion people," according to WHO head Margaret Chan. While some companies have donation schemes for the developing world - British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, for example, is donating 50 million doses to WHO - the lion's share will go to wealthy countries, despite the fact that underlying health conditions make populations in the developing world particularly vulnerable...
...hemisphere face another decision: whether to keep schools open. Young students are known by influenza epidemiologists as "super spreaders" because they shed more flu virus when ill, are unlikely to practice good hand hygiene, and are in close contact with parents and peers. Writing in the August edition of British medical journal the Lancet Infectious Diseases, researchers from Imperial College in London predicted that early and prolonged school closures could ease the burden on hospitals by reducing the number of cases at the peak of the pandemic. They cited a previous study in France that predicted that...
...June, the British High Court of Appeals exposed a rift within Britain's Jewish community when it ruled that the admissions policy run by JFS School in North London was in breach of the Race Relations Act. The school's admissions policy, which insists that a pupil's mother must be Jewish, whether by birth or conversion, came under scrutiny in 2007 after the school refused to admit a 12-year-old boy on the grounds that his mother had converted to Judaism from Catholicism through the progressive Judaism movement, which is not recognized by the orthodox United Synagogue, Britain...
...help the court come to a decision, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a democratically elected representative body of Britain's Jewish community, has stepped in to act as an official adviser. According to spokesman Mark Frazer, the board's aim will be to make sure the court's ruling is right for even the most orthodox of Britain's Jews. "The board must cater for the highest watermark of religious observance in order to safeguard the rights of the entire community," he says. "The orthodox definition of who is Jewish, taking into account someone's parentage or lineage...
...British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the verdict "monstrous" and urged the United Nations Security Council to impose an international arms embargo on the regime. Malaysia's Foreign Minister Anifah Aman expressed "grave concern" over the verdict and called for an urgent meeting of his counterparts in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional organization that is usually supportive of Burma. A global arms embargo is "the most effective way of showing this military dictatorship that it can no longer defy the international community," says Zoya Phan of London-based advocacy group Burma Campaign...