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Is Swine Flu Poised for a British Invasion of the US?

Here it comes again. An outbreak of H1N1 flu has hospitalized 302 people in England and accounted for 14 deaths in recent weeks, the Guardian reported. Making matters worse, many British citizens, including health workers, have yet to receive flu shots this year after the frenzy of attention paid to H1N1 subsided at the...

H1N1 Declared Over; Experts Ponder Lessons

(Aug. 10) -- More than a year after swine flu was declared a global pandemic, leading to a flurry of fast-tracked vaccine production, travel restrictions and public health advisories, the world has finally entered a "post-pandemic period." That's the word from the World Health Organization, which today downgraded H1N1...

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...

Hyping H1N1: Did It Create a Dangerous Flu Fatigue?

(Feb. 27) -- With the World Health Organization warning yet again this week that the H1N1 virus has yet to reach its peak, a flu season that's milder than average hardly seems that way. Now, the nearly yearlong coverage of H1N1 has left some worried that future influenza outbreaks will be met with ambivalent flu fatigue...

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...

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02/18/12 Study Data from Rollins School of Public Health... Source: NewsRx Current study results from the report, "Correlates of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine acceptability among parents and their adolescent children," have been published.
06/29/11 UPDATE: Questions and Answers on 2009 H1N1 Vaccine... Source: Department of Health - Republic of the Philippines Considerations of financing distinguish between those related to the vaccine itself, the ancillary supplies needed to administer the vaccine, and the actual administration of the vaccine.
04/08/11 H1N1 Concerns Spell Boom for Hand Sanitizers Market Source: PR-inside.com - Austria Intramuscular vaccines or flu shots account for majority of market revenues, followed by intranasal vaccines.
08/22/10 Special H1N1 shot not needed Source: The Topeka Capital-Journal - Topeka KS The public won't need special H1N1 flu immunizations this coming flu season because the standard flu shot already will contain the H1N1 vaccine, public health officials say.