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Reader Feedback: Patriotism, Church, College, Swine Flu and More

(April 22) -- Editor's note: Below is a sampling of reader feedback we received to op-eds published on AOL News over the past week. The comments have been edited for length and clarity. A Modest Proposal for Anti-Government Crowd -- By Alan Colmes Alan seems to be under the false impression that tea party members in...

Health Officials Worry Over H1N1 Uptick

(March 30) -- An outbreak of H1N1 cases in Georgia and mini-surges in other Southeastern states have federal health officials urging vaccinations and vigilance to thwart the threat of a third wave of the flu. H1N1 has been largely contained across most of the country. But in Georgia, the Centers for Disease Control and...

Thousands of Doses of Kids' H1N1 Vaccine Recalled

ATLANTA (Dec. 15) -- Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday. The recall is for about 800,000 pre-filled syringes intended for children ages 6 months to nearly 3 years. The shots, made by...

As Flu Spreads, Some Panic

First, the swine flu story line was about how many people didn't want the vaccine. Now that there's less of it than officials promised, people are clamoring for the vaccine and a type of public hysteria is becoming part of the story. "I've never seen it like this," a besieged doctor's office administrator in suburban...

Fury Erupts Over H1N1 Shots for Prisoners

While children, pregnant women and people with compromised immune systems wait in hours-long lines for H1N1 vaccines, some of their counterparts behind bars have no such hassle. Prisoners who fall into high-risk categories for swine flu will get the shots even while some members of the general public who are not high risk...

SwineFlu News From the Web

02/17/12 Now the good news: UK flu rates at all-time low Source: The Independent - London - UK The infection that has laid low millions of people every winter for generations, causing widespread deaths and wreaking havoc with the NHS and the economy, is at an all-time low.
04/06/11 Venezuela: swine-flu outbreak controlled Source: FOX - WFXT MyFox 25 - Boston MA CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's health minister said Wednesday that an AH1N1 outbreak was under control even as diagnosed cases of swine flu jumped to 923 and a local group of medical professionals blamed the government for failing to take preventive steps after a worldwide 2009 flu pandemic.
03/26/11 Rise in sleep illness cases linked to swine-flu jab Source: Irish Independent EIGHT Irish people who received the swine-flu vaccine have developed narcolepsy -- the potentially devastating ailment that causes sudden daytime sleep attacks, the Sunday Independent has learnt.
02/28/11 Researchers discover new mechanism of beta cell... Source: News-Medical.Net Role of serotonin in autism spectrum disorders Mouse models are yielding important clues about the nature of autism spectrum disorders, which impac...
09/03/10 Swineflu toll in Orissa rises to 22 Source: DNA (Daily News & Analysis) The death toll in Orissa due to swineflu rose to 22 today with three more persons, including two children, succumbing to the virus-borne disease in different hospitals here, official sources said.

Background on SwineFlu

Swine influenza, also called pig influenza, swine flu, hog flu and pig flu, is an infection caused by any one of several types of swine influenza viruses.

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