Travelling to the World Cup?

Young people are a high risk group; Video: all about swine flu. Dr Chris talks about swine flu with Sian Welby; Swine flu vaccine ‘to be delayed by 6 weeks’ The need to treat seasonal flu complicates roll-out …

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The Asthma Foundation: “Flu vaccine is important” – New Zealand …

Modesto BeeThe Asthma Foundation: “ Flu vaccine is important”New Zealand Doctor OnlineThe Asthma Foundation strongly recommends that people with asthma and other respiratory illnesses are immunised with the combined swine flu / seasonal …

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Swine flu threat to children 'not taken seriously' | Pandemic Flu

A vaccine against swine flu will be incorporated within seasonal flu jabs for other groups, although pregnant women will also be excluded from those routinely targeted. Professor Davies said there were ‘really quite high hospital …

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Backup Provider for Influenza Vaccines in Ottawa | TopNews United …

Before starting the production of H1N1 vaccine , GlaxoSmithKline had to complete the production of seasonal flu vaccine . With one production line GlaxoSmithKline was incapable of producing enough of the influenza vaccines in time. …

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Influenza | It's Flu Season Somewhere – Here's The Scoop

The United States CDC gives the following statistics . Yearly 5 to 20% of the population get the flu, 200000 cases are hospitalized due to severe flu complications and 36000 cases prove to be fatal. Annual healthcare costs approaches US$10 billion … Several antiviral pharmacological agents have been approved for the treatment of the flu. Because of the seasonal changes in the types and strains of influenza . Click here to view rest of article from original site …

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Flu News Blog – Workers get flu shot if co-workers do – United …

Pretoria – This year babies from the age of 6 months can be vaccinated against two types of seasonal influenza as well as the pandemic H1N1 virus (swine flu ) with one injection at clinics in the private sector. According to the pamphlet …

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Swine flu jabs may be wasted (The Age) | Crisis Top Current News …

Swine flu jabs may be wasted (The Age). March 16th, 2010 News Headlines none Comments. Millions of doses of the Commonwealth’s swine flu vaccine could expire as people opt for the new seasonal flu vaccine , a Victorian doctor says. …

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HHS preparing to handle claims of harm from H1N1 vaccine …

HHS preparing to handle claims of harm from H1N1 vaccineVaccineNewsDailyby Rita Uplend on March 16, 2010 WASHINGTON — While the pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine seems to be just as safe as seasonal flu vaccines, the federal .

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H5N1: Canada: Officials look to overhaul vaccine-supply model

As a result, the federal government signed a 10-year contract in 2001, worth about $300-million, with GlaxoSmithKline Inc., the only company with a Canadian flu vaccine plant. Glaxo also supplies much of Canada’s seasonal flu vaccine …

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Pandemic flu vaccine dilemma – 6minutes | PandemicMap.com

TopNews United States Pandemic flu vaccine dilemma 6minutes The government may be left with large amounts of unused pandemic influenza vaccine as supplies of seasonal flu vaccine become available this … After Swine Flu Frenzy Biotech …

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