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2006-10-19 21:47:46
Adjust font size:WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Flu vaccine makers will provide 115 million doses to the U.S. market this year, by far the most ever, but vexing distribution problems mean it may still be difficult to get a shot, health officials said this week.Doctors should start vaccinating patients as soon as they receive their vaccine orders, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.They should aim to get high-risk patients, such as the elderly, vaccinated first but there is no advisory calling for such patients to be firs ...
2006-10-19 19:47:00
... apparently ordered enough of an experimental bird flu vaccine to inoculate it's entire population.In so doing the Swiss have become the first country to bulk buy a supply of GlaxoSmithKline's bird flu vaccine for humans.In trials earlier this year the vaccine demonstrated a more than 80 percent strong immune response in test subjects.The vaccine has an extra ingredient in the vaccine formulation which is designed to increase the immunogenicity of the vaccine as well as potentially offering protection against variant virus strains.According to E ...
2006-10-19 03:40:34
The Cure for AffluenceOctober 19, 2006Patterson’s writing is vivid, emotionally acute and bracingly smart. His first work, the sailing memoir The Water in Between, was a New York Times “notable book,” and his short-story collection, Country of Cold, won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. But it’s not just his literary craftsmanship that stokes the envy of his fellow writers. More maddening is that he is this good and he has a day job.Patterson, who lives on Saltspring Island, is a doctor of internal medi ...
2006-10-18 23:56:00
If an influenza pandemic were to occur in the near future, there would be a shortage of several billion doses of the pandemic influenza vaccine needed to protect the global population.What activities are required to increase future pandemic influenza vaccine production capacity? Who will undertake this action? How long will it take to fill the gap and how much will it cost? What are the challenges? What characteristics would an ideal pandemic influenza vaccine have? WHAT: News conference to release the ...
2006-10-18 10:10:15
ToolsRelated ArticlesBird flu mixed with human flu lacks punch01 August 2006Only drugs and vaccines will deflect bird flu pandemic26 April 2006Spread of flu in US slowed after 9/1116 September 2006Search New ScientistContact usWeb LinksBird flu special report, New ScientistCentre for Ecology and HydrologyEnvironmental Health PerspectivesIn a flu pandemic, millions of people are expected to take the antiviral drug Tamiflu, but new research shows that ultimately much of the drug will pass through the people taking it and e ...
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