Although the report supported getting flu shots, it said that new vaccines offering lifelong protection against all flu strains, instead of annual partial protection against a mix-and-match set, must be created.
Flu Deaths Reach Epidemic Level, but May Be at Peak - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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“Vaccine effectiveness” is a very different metric from vaccine-virus match, which is done in a lab. Vaccine efficacy is measured by interviewing hundreds of sick or recovering patients who had positive flu tests and asking whether and when they had received shots.
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During the 2009 swine flu pandemic, many elderly Americans had natural protection, presumably from flus they caught in the 1930s or ’40s.
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Flu shot time? Google Flu Trends predicts worst season on record. - Slate Magazine - 0 views
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If you ask the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, this year’s flu season is looking “moderately severe.”
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if you ask Google Flu Trends, we’re in the midst of an outbreak that is shaping up to be the most extensive on record.
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CDC still drives the bulk of national media coverage
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Production of swine flu vaccine is way behind - Yahoo! News - 2 views
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Also, Protein Sciences Corp. of Meriden, Conn., landed a five-year, $147 million contract to develop a vaccine using its recombinant technology — flu proteins grown in insect cells. The hope is that the first doses would be available within 12 weeks of the beginning of a pandemic. That is about twice as fast as flu vaccine produced from eggs.
PLoS ONE: Fatal Cases of Influenza A in Childhood - 7 views
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This work presents a rare insight into fatal influenza H3N2 in healthy children.
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