Flu pandemic differences produced ‘confusion’: WHO probe. The head of a World Health Organisation probe into the international handling of the swine flu pandemic said Wednesday that multiple definitions of pandemic caused "confusion" and muddled the response. [News Source]

A flu jab too close for comfort. Sharron Coppin was flabbergasted to discover some of the federal Department of Health and Ageing's top immunisation advisers have links with the drug company that created the vaccine that landed her kids in hospital. The flu shots, provided free by West Australian health authorities, had never been tested in children through clinical trials. [News Source]

Vaccine investigator Peter Doherty shuns biotech links. Nobel Prize-winning scientist Peter Doherty has ruled out working for biotech companies, saying he wants the independence to "speak freely". Professor Doherty is spearheading the federal government's investigation into why the seasonal flu vaccine triggered seizures in more than 100 Australian children this year. [News Source]