Public Health Agency of Canada

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - July 29, 2009) - The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, federal Minister of Health, along with Dr. David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Dr. Frank Plummer, Scientific Director General of the National Microbiology Laboratory, Dr. Howard Njoo, Director General, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control at the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Dr. Elwyn Griffiths, Director General, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate at Health Canada, will provide an update on the H1N1 flu virus.

Media are invited to attend. If you are unable to participate in person, please call:

North American Dial-In #: 1-888-265-0464
Int'l/Local Dial-In #: 613-954-4096
Conference ID # 22674085


Date :    Wednesday, July 29, 2009


Time :    3:00 p.m. EDT


Location: 0115C (Departmental Board Room)
          Basement, Brooke Claxton Building
          Ottawa, Ontario

Regular updates on H1N1 flu virus are available on our website at: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/swine_200904-eng.php.

Subscribe to our RSS feed for journalists on H1N1 influenza A at: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/rss/index-eng.php.

Webcast of media briefing: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/swine_webcast-eng.php.