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Dec 31, 2009

Dec 31, 2009

Obama spurs plans to deliver drugs by mail after bio attack

Robert Roos
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Dec 31, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – President Barack Obama, giving a push to a proposal that has been in the works for years, yesterday ordered federal agencies to develop a plan for the US Postal Service (USPS) to deliver medical countermeasures to households in the wake of a biological attack.

Dec 31, 2009

Dec 31, 2009

Pneumococcus infection boosts risk of severe illness in H1N1 patients

Maryn McKenna
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Dec 31, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – H1N1 flu patients who were also infected with a common cause of pneumonia were 125 times more likely to develop life-threatening disease, a team of American and Argentinean researchers reported Thursday.

Dec 30, 2009

Dec 30, 2009

Study: H1N1 not highly contagious in households

Maryn McKenna
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Dec 30, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – People living in the same household were less likely to catch H1N1 influenza from a sick family member than they would have been in past pandemics or during a normal flu season, a team from University College London and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dec 30, 2009

Indonesia reports 20 H5N1 cases -- 19 fatal -- since January

Robert Roos
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Dec 30, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Indonesia's Ministry of Health, updating information on H5N1 avian influenza for the first time since January, quietly reported this week that the country has had 20 human cases so far this year, with 19 of them fatal—a 95% case-fatality rate (CFR).

Dec 29, 2009

Dec 29, 2009

New Hampshire probes GI anthrax case

Robert Roos
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Dec 29, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Health officials in New Hampshire are investigating whether a woman who is ill with gastrointestinal (GI) anthrax contracted the potentially deadly infection at a drum circle gathering in Durham, N.H.
Dec 29, 2009

Chan calls for continued vigilance against H1N1

Robert Roos
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Dec 29, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said today that the H1N1 influenza pandemic isn't over and requires careful monitoring for up to another year.

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