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Hib vaccine supplies normal again at bases | Stars and Stripes - 0 views

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    Supplies of a vital infant vaccine are back to normal levels at military clinics in Europe after a 2007 recall led providers to withhold booster shots to preserve supplies. The Haemophilus influenza type b, or Hib, vaccine was rationed at civilian and military medical facilities after the drug company Merck and Co. announced a recall in late 2007.
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Deeper anthrax shots could cut side effects - 0 views

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    From now on, military health workers will shove that needle a little deeper when administering anthrax vaccinations - but that extra pinch should prevent more pain later.A study that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association in October found that injecting the vaccine into a muscle rather than into the fat just under the skin greatly reduced side effects, including warmth, itching, redness, inflammation or nodules. Itching went from 23 percent of male volunteers to 5 percent when they were injected intramuscularly. Redness and inflammation went from 74 percent of male patients to 29 percent of male patients. Pain, however, went up about one percent.
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