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(CIDRAP News) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today advised healthcare practitioners to temporarily stop using GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK's) Rotarix rotavirus vaccine while it investigates the presence of porcine circovirus 1 (PCV1) in the product, a finding that isn't currently thought to pose a safety risk.
Mar 22, 2010
March 18, 2010
(CIDRAP News) In some parts of the world as many as 25% of people who contract tuberculosis (TB) end up with the multidrug-resistant variety (MDR-TB), but recent experience shows it is possible to control the disease even in hard-hit areas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report released today.
Mar 17, 2010
(CIDRAP News) Severe obesity makes it almost five times more likely that adults infected with the H1N1 pandemic influenza virus will be ill enough to be hospitalized, and also more likely that they will die under certain conditions, according to new research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
(CIDRAP News) – Requiring healthcare workers to get vaccinated against influenza is one effective way to boost their vaccination rates, and another may be to target immunization messages to workers who are relatively isolated from coworkers, according to reports being presented this week at a conference on healthcare-associated infections.
(CIDRAP News) Researchers from India's National Institute of Virology (NIV) yesterday announced that they detected a small mutation in pandemic H1N1 virus in samples from three patients, fueling speculation that it may be the same change that surfaced in two Dutch patients last fall.
Mar 16, 2010
Mar 15, 2010
(CIDRAP News) The World Health Organization (WHO) recently confirmed the H5N1 avian influenza death of a 20-year-old woman and announced a new H5N1 case, in an 18-month-old boy who is hospitalized.
(CIDRAP News) – While the pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine seems to be just as safe as seasonal flu vaccines, the federal government has been getting some letters from people saying they plan to seek compensation for injuries caused by the injection, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
(CIDRAP News) Though pandemic flu is circulating at low levels in many parts of the world, Thailand and some West African nations are reporting increased activity, and the virus is being edged out by influenza B in China and other Asian regions, with signs of westward spread, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
Mar 12, 2010
(CIDRAP News) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued updated numbers of illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for the H1N1 pandemic, new estimates that add an additional month of statistics to the agency's calculations but only slightly increase the overall toll.
Household transmission lower for H1N1
Mar 11, 2010
