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Study: Varied prime-boost flu vaccine combos protect toddlers

(CIDRAP News) – Scientists have found an answer to a nagging question about how best to protect children under age 3 against influenza, reporting that any combination of injected or nasal-spray vaccines, given in any order, yields similar protective antibody responses in the recommended two-dose prime-boost strategy.

Lisa Schnirring
 

FLU NEWS SCAN: CSL vaccine update, vaccine response in pregnant women, Hajj vaccination mandate

Aug 17, 2011

 

FLU NEWS SCAN: H5N1 case in Egypt, cell-based flu vaccine, H1N1 shedding after oseltamivir

Aug 10, 2011

 

Pharmacies launch new flu vaccine season

(CIDRAP News) – Walgreens announced yesterday that it has started offering the flu vaccine at stores, and other pharmacy chains also expect to launch their programs for the 2011-12 flu season in the coming weeks.

The company said the flu vaccine is available in all of its 7,700 stores, which include Duane Reade pharmacies in New York and more than 350 Take Care Clinics, according to a company press release.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Oyster-related illnesses, avian flu outbreaks, addressing vaccine mistrust

Aug 5, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: H1N1 vaccine effectiveness, pandemic vaccine in hospitals, milk-related illnesses, fungal infections and tornadoes

Aug 1, 2011

 

FLU NEWS SCAN: Universal vaccine, rapid H5N1 vaccine schedules

Jul 27, 2011

 

FLU NEWS SCAN: Vaccine mandate, immunity in elderly

Study: Lower flu vaccine response in elderly is due to antibody quantity

 

NEWS SCAN: US cholera cases, jump in frog Salmonella infections, norovirus surveillance, modestly effective flu vaccine

Jul 21, 2011

 

EMA narcolepsy review restricts Pandemrix use in kids, teens

(CIDRAP) – Europe's drug regulatory agency today released its final review of a link between narcolepsy and the Pandemrix 2009 H1N1 vaccine, which recommends a labeling change that limits the vaccine's use in children and teens to when protection is needed and seasonal trivalent vaccine isn't available.

Lisa Schnirring
 

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