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(CIDRAP News) Over the next few months, the nation's healthcare providers will shift from giving the pandemic H1N1 vaccine to a seasonal flu vaccine that contains the new virus, which has federal officials grappling with how to transition from a massive vaccine monitoring effort to a likely more routine system for the seasonal version.
Jul 26, 2010
(CIDRAP News) – Egyptian officials have confirmed H5N1 avian influenza in a 20-year-old woman who is hospitalized in critical condition in Cairo, according to MENA, the country's news agency.
(CIDRAP News) The global H5N1 avian influenza situation has not improved very much since the virus began spreading widely in 2003, and many human cases have probably gone unreported, French health experts conclude in an assessment published yesterday in Eurosurveillance.
Jul 23, 2010
Jul 22, 2010
(CIDRAP News) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released new details about recommendations its vaccine advisory group made in February for Americans who receive anthrax shots.
(CIDRAP News) In describing a case of gastrointestinal anthrax linked to a drumming event in New Hampshire last December, federal health officials said the anthrax risk related to such events is very low and that the patient may have had an unusual susceptibility to the disease.
(CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have more than 500 comments from the public to sift through when it begins the challenging task of writing regulations to make produce safer.
(CIDRAP News) Amid media reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) might be on the verge of setting a date to discuss a step-down in the pandemic alert level, the agency said today that it's too early to determine if tropical and Southern Hemisphere countries have transitioned to normal seasonal flu patterns.
Jul 21, 2010
Jul 20, 2010
WHO committee may meet to decide to end pandemic
(CIDRAP News) A recent study of a modest sample of US retail beef products found little difference between the levels of bacteria in grass-fed and conventionally raised beef, despite marketing claims that grass-fed beef is safer.
Study says Ontario's vaccine campaign worth it
(CIDRAP News) A study published yesterday raises the possibility of a new influenza vaccine platform that replaces the traditional hypodermic needle with a small skin patch studded with dozens of tiny needles that poke painlessly into the skin and dissolve, delivering the vaccine to the skin's specialized immune cells.
Jul 19, 2010
