H1N1 protection added to next season's flu shots

Amednews.com | The Food and Drug Administration has decided to include a pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus in the Northern Hemisphere's 2010-11 seasonal influenza vaccine.

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Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

From age-old scourges such as smallpox and tuberculosis to emerging threats like AIDS and SARS, our interactions with animals have always played a pivotal role as a source of human disease. Bird flu is the latest such menace coming home to roost. Leading public health authorities now predict as inevitable a pandemic of influenza, triggered by bird

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Hong Kong: Swine Influenza Virus reassorted with Pandemic H1

URGENT! Hong Kong: Swine Influenza Virus reassorted with Pandemic H1N1 Virus isolated from Pig (2/26/10) Hong Kong H1N1 Tracking

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24/02/101: WHO: A/H1N1 pandemic flu yet to pass peak

GENEVA, Feb. 24 -- The A/H1N1 pandemic influenza has not fully passed its peak yet despite decling transmission of the virus in many parts of the world, the

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