News tagged with flu vaccinations
CDC: Spray is here; swine flu shots come next week
(AP) -- The initial swine flu vaccine doses this week will be the nasal spray version, and arm injections will begin next week to help meet demand, health officials said Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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Stanford analyses of flu pandemics project savings from earlier vaccinations
In a city the size of New York, starting a vaccination campaign a few weeks earlier could save almost 600 lives and over $150 million, according to a study by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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Ind., Tenn. to begin swine flu vaccinations
(AP) -- Indiana and Tennessee are among the first states that will vaccinate people against the swine flu.
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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As swine flu intensifies, US rolls out first vaccine doses
US health authorities are hoping to contain what they say is an intensifying swine flu pandemic with a massive A(H1N1) vaccination campaign that begins this Tuesday.
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Oct 04, 2009 |
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Survey finds just 40 percent of adults 'absolutely certain' they will get H1N1 vaccine
In a new survey, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that just 40% of adults are "absolutely certain" they will get the H1N1 vaccine for themselves, and 51% of parents are "absolutely certain" that they ...
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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Nasal spray flu vaccine becoming available
(AP) -- The long-awaited first vaccinations against swine flu - the squirt-in-the-nose kind - begin early next week in parts of the country, and states are urging people to be patient until more arrives.
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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CDC: 25 cities and states order swine flu vaccine
(AP) -- Twenty-five cities and states have ordered swine flu vaccine, and the first doses should be administered Tuesday, officials said Thursday.
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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Seasonal flu vaccine delayed for some US providers
(AP) -- The largest U.S. supplier of seasonal flu vaccines said it is running behind on shipping those vaccines - partly because of the crunch to produce millions of doses of the swine flu vaccine.
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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Protect children first with H1N1 flu vaccine, says national pediatric disease expert (w/ Video)
The optimal way to control swine flu, the new H1N1 virus that emerged as a global threat in 2009, is to vaccinate children with the planned H1N1 flu vaccine, says the co-director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham ...
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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Bacteria co-infections common in swine flu deaths: CDC
Many people who have died from swine flu in the United States were also infected with other bacteria, including one which can cause pneumonia or meningitis, US health officials said Wednesday.
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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Most would refuse emergency use H1N1 vaccine or additive
A majority of Americans would not take an H1N1 flu vaccine or drug additive authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and University ...
Sep 29, 2009 |
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Danger of swine flu is not what it is, but what it could become
Swine flu is not a danger for what it is, the experts say. It's a danger for what it could be. That's why officials are pushing swine flu vaccine, which should start arriving as early as Oct. 6.
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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US says first swine flu vaccine to arrive Oct. 5
(AP) -- The first swine flu vaccine should be in some doctors' offices as early as Oct. 5, U.S. health officials said Friday.
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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EU drug agency: License 2 swine flu vaccines
(AP) -- The European Union's drug regulator recommended Friday that two swine flu vaccines be licensed in the 27-nation bloc to ensure their availability before the start of the normal flu season.
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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Study: Flu shot better than nasal spray in adults
(PhysOrg.com) -- A flu shot is 50 percent more effective than nasal spray vaccine in preventing seasonal influenza in healthy adults, a new University of Michigan study shows.
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Sep 23, 2009 |
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