Influenza Vaccines

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FLU NEWS SCAN: H5N1 case in Egypt, flu vaccine and birth weight

Feb 22, 2012

 

NVAC approves recommendations on health worker flu vaccination

(CIDRAP News) – An advisory group to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today approved a set of voluntary measures designed to boost flu vaccination in healthcare workers.

Lisa Schnirring
 

Federal advisors propose steps to boost health worker flu vaccination

(CIDRAP News) – Federal vaccine advisors today unveiled proposed voluntary recommendations for increasing flu vaccination in healthcare workers, sparking strong reactions from employee groups who object to language that stops just short of urging mandatory vaccination.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Raw milk Campylobacter outbreak, malaria deaths. yellow fever in Africa, chikungunya diagnosis, cell-based flu vaccine

Feb 3, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Stalk-specific pH1N1 antibodies, broad-spectrum flu vaccines, hospital norovirus factors, polio efforts in Pakistan

Jan 31, 2012

 

FLU NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death in Indonesia, flu vaccine market

Jan 10, 2012

 

HHS orders novel H3N2 vaccine for clinical trials

(CIDRAP News) – The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is taking steps to prepare for clinical trials of a vaccine targeted to a novel H3N2 influenza strain that has infected at least 12 people so far, in case one is needed, a department official said today.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in Bangladesh, vaccine ethics, defining vaccine failure

Dec 22, 2011

 

FLU NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death in Egypt, avian flu measures in Hong Kong, novel H4N8 strain, healthcare flu vaccination

Dec 21, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: Flu vaccine and sickle cell, malaria in early pregnancy, MMR vaccine reactions, contact precautions and dementia

Dec 13, 2011

 

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