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obi jo | 11/06/2009
http://benkazie.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/sebelius-administration-blamed-for-dearth-of-h1n1-vaccines/ Indeed, one cannot blame the President or Administration for every aspect of the recent swine flu vaccine saga. To be sure there are technologic hurdles that have had to be overcome and remain a source of difficulty. Specifically this relates to the decades old technique of producing vaccine from virus
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Truthdig (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
A new vaccine trial is underway in Africa in an attempt to battle Malaria, a disease that not only kills one million people every year, but also makes 300 million seriously sick. If trial results come back positive, a worldwide vaccine could be available as soon as 2012. The LA Times: Each year, malaria kills more than 1 million people—90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and 80% of them younger...
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Health Care (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Vaccines are the only effective means you will have to protect yourself, your family and your co-workers from potential death from the H1N1 Swine Flu virus. When both the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) put out a World-wide alert that this disease is serious ...
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City Pages - The Blotter (Free subscription) | yesterday
We're still trying to figure out what this man thought he was going to do with 900 doses of swine flu vaccine.
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Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
*A storm has erupted over the announcement last month that an experimental AIDS vaccine tested in Thailand proved modestly effective. It was billed...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
The Journal of Infectious Diseases has released a special edition, Global Rotavirus Surveillance: Preparing for the Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccines. This special edition provides a significant contribution to the understanding of rotavirus disease burden and the impact of rotavirus vaccines, which have the potential to save an estimated 228,000 lives annually.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Warsaw - Poland will not buy swine flu vaccines until they are proven to be safe and without side effects, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday. We don't want to save and we won't save on vaccines if we are certain that they are safe for the Polis...
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Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Originally published in MedPage Today by Michael Smith, MedPage Today North American Correspondent Vaccination does not appear to cause autism or other health problems in children with inborn errors of metabolism, a researcher said here. In a retrospective analysis, children with such conditions were not more likely than normal children to visit emergency rooms or need hospital [...] Posted at KevinMD.com...
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dutch authorities say they have banned use of a batch of Prevnar, which Pfizer acquired as part of its purchase of Wyeth, after three infants died within two weeks of receiving the anti-infection vaccination, Reuters reports. “On average about 5 to 10 deaths are reported annually after babies get vaccines,” a spokeswoman for the Dutch [...]
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Vaccines for seasonal flu are in short supply because production has dropped amid high demand for the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Saturday. Domestic drug makers are expected to supply enough vaccine for the seasonal flu to treat about 45.04 million adults, or 80 percent of last year's total, the ministry said.
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Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
An investigation was under way Friday into allegations Toronto Maple Leafs hockey players got preferential treatment in receiving H1N1 flu vaccines....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley among first New York employers to receive shipments of H1N1 antidote Just when you thought the popularity of Wall Street bankers had hit rock bottom, top US financial institutions have caused uproar for allegedly muscling their way to the front of the queue to get hold of scarce swine flu vaccines. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley were among the...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. health officials briefing Congress on Wednesday would not outline a timeline for when enough H1N1 (swine flu) vaccines would be available to reach all high-risk populations in the country, the Washington Post reports. "We have been burned, quite frankly, by predictions that have not come to pass," CDC Director Thomas Frieden said during the House Appropriations subcommittee briefing....
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The acute shortage of swine-flu vaccines, coupled with different distribution plans by local health authorities and two distinct forms of the H1N1 vaccine, has created widespread confusion and frustration among Puget Sound area residents.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The effectiveness of pandemic flu vaccination campaigns -- like that now underway for H1N1 -- could be undermined by the public incorrectly associating coincidental and unrelated health events with the vaccines.
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obi jo | 11/06/2009
http://benkazie.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/sebelius-administration-blamed-for-dearth-of-h1n1-vaccines/ Indeed, one cannot blame the President or Administration for every aspect of the recent swine flu vaccine saga. To be sure there are technologic hurdles that have had to be overcome and remain a source of difficulty. Specifically this relates to the decades old technique of producing vaccine from virus...
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helenely1 | 11/03/2009
We should consider the swine flu more seriously than a cold since any flu is always a highly contagious disease caused by a virus. Young children, pregnant women and people with respiratory problems are more liable to be infected by the flu influenza, especially when they have not been vaccinated against a new virus that has just mutated. Every year the regular flu kills 36 , 000 people in America
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aarkstore | 11/02/2009
REPORT DESCRIPTION H1N1 Influenza A (2009) is the first pandemic influenza of 21st century affecting more than more than four lac people in more than 180 countries across the globe in 2009. The flu broke in Mexico in the month of March and then affected U.S. and after that it spread across the globe. H1N1 (2009) influenza have a mutation of pig, bird and humans which has made it more dangerous and...
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