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(CIDRAP News) – A large-scale study suggests that antiviral treatment saved many lives during Mexico's 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic but also points to an irony: that the use of antivirals dropped sharply in the fall wave of cases.

(CIDRAP News) – The intravenous antiviral peramivir was used in close to 1,300 severely ill patients under an emergency authorization during the 2009 flu pandemic, but its impact and safety profile remain unclear, in part because of patchy data collection, according to reports and commentary published in Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) this week.

(CIDRAP News) – Lapses in health measures during the second season that the 2009 H1N1 flu virus circulated in England probably contributed to a heavier disease burden—marked by more deaths and hospitalizations—than during the 2009-10 pandemic, researchers reported today.

(CIDRAP News) – Two studies yesterday confirmed the link between narcolepsy in Finnish children and the adjuvanted 2009 H1N1 pandemic vaccine Pandemrix and offered new details.