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As more and more people receive the H1N1 shot, an earlier vaccine is casting a mysterious shadow over the attempt to immunize 200 million people in the next few months. A vaccine made in 1976 in response to a different strain of H1N1 influenza led to...
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Our government has a responsibility to make sure its citizens have access to medications that will help guard against influenza and other contagious diseases. The H1N1 flu has been around for months and the seasonal flu has existed forever. It is not...
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Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms — have failed to contain the disease. Despite initially declaring...
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The H1N1 influenza has peaked in North Texas, but don’t put away the hand sanitizer yet. "We have seen a peak and we are on the back side, but I don’t think that is the only peak we’ll see this season," said Dr. Sandra Parker, Tarrant County Public Health’s...
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And another thing is that scientists who appear to be independent are also hired consultants working for the same pharmaceutical companies who produce the vaccines,” says Louise Voller, a journalist at the Danish Daily Information newspaper.
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It added that it was also closely monitoring the risk of the H5N1 virus combining with the H1N1 swine-flu virus to produce a new and deadlier strain. "We don't know if this is possible, but we are certainly aware of the risk," said Shin Young-Soo, WHO...
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After the flu wreaked havoc on several local high school sports teams this fall, winter sports coaches are taking extra precautions in an effort to keep their teams healthy. Holding sick kids out until they are well will go a long way in making sure...
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The Daily News, lswitzer@bgdailynews.com /783-3240 Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:06 AM CST The current wave of H1N1 influenza in Kentucky appears to have reached its peak and, while that is good news, the flu is still widespread and well above the normal...
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Switzerland Swiss pharmaceuticals maker Novartis AG has opened the first U.S. plant to produce flu vaccines using cell cultures instead of egg-based methods, it said Tuesday. The new site in Holly Springs, N.C., is unlikely to ramp up output in time...
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Access to healthcare leads the list of issues Americans named as the "most urgent health problem" in the United States, Gallup Poll results indicated. Thirty-two percent of Americans listed access as the most critical concern, results released Monday...
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