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U.S. agency questions link between seasonal flu shot swine flu

Source: Toronto Star
Toronto : Canada | 2 months ago  
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Centers for Disease Control says that agency would love to see Canadian data that appears to link getting a seasonal flu shot with catching swine flu. But Dr. Thomas Frieden says the CDC has looked and failed to find a similar link in data from the U.S. as a whole and in New York City, where he was health commissioner...
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