November 18th, 2009 
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Vaccine: Low take up among people most at risk, found survey
Millions of people are shunning the swine flu jab over fears about its safety, a survey of GPs suggests.
It found that fewer than half of those offered the vaccination are taking it up – with pregnant women the most likely to say no.…
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Comments Off September 18th, 2009 Malvika Sampat A second wave of swine flu could be on its way, scientists warned last night after the number of new cases rose for the first time since July.
The jump, from an estimated 3,000 to 5,000, comes a fortnight after children – key spreaders of the disease – returned to school.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: Breathing Space, Disruption, Flu, Fortnight, Health Chiefs, Intensive Care, Line Of Defence, Lull, Medical Officer, Person To Person, Schools In England, Second Wave, Sir Liam Donaldson, Six Schools, Spreaders, Summer Break, Surgical Mask, Swine Flu, Tamiflu, Worst Case Scenario Comments Off July 13th, 2009 Malvika Sampat Twenty million people will be vaccinated against swine flu by Christmas, with everyone receiving the jab by the middle of next year.
Experts are drawing up a priority list of patients to be given immunity before the bug becomes more virulent.
Those first in the queue are expected to be the elderly, infants under the age of five, people with asthma and diabetes, and those with compromised immune systems.…
Posted in News Tags: 60 Million, Andy Burnham, British Medical Association, Flu, Health Problems, Health Secretary, Healthy Person, High Risk, Immune Systems, Immunity, Jab, Jabs, Medical Research Laboratories, Negotiator, Peter Holden, Queue, Risk Groups, Second Wave, Swine Flu Vaccine, Vaccination Comments Off March 3rd, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
A flu shot is prepared in Chicago, Illinois. US President Barack Obama has vowed to fight for his budget proposals that include investments in clean energy and healthcare as he faces a tough battle moving the measures through Congress. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Boyle)From Yahoo News/Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Afp, Barack Obama, Budget Proposals, Cdc, Centers For Disease Control, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Chicago Illinois, Clean Energy, Disease Control And Prevention, Flu, Flu Drug, Flu Shot, Getty Images, Resistant Strain, Reuters Washington, Roche, Tamiflu, Tim Boyle, Tough Battle, Yahoo News Comments Off February 23rd, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
From Breitbart/AFP:
Scientists on Sunday unveiled lab-made human antibodies that can disable several types of influenza, including highly-lethal H5N1 bird flu and the “Spanish Flu” strain that killed tens of millions in 1918.
Tested in mice, the antibodies work by binding to a previously obscure structure in the flu virus which, when blocked, sabotages the pathogen’s ability to enter the cell it is trying to infect, according to the study.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 1918, Achilles Heel, Bird Flu, Flu, Flu Strain, Flu Study, Flu Virus, H5n1 Bird Flu, Human Antibodies, Influenza, Mice, Mutation, Pathogen, Scientist, Scientists, Spanish Flu, Strains, Tens, Universal Comments Off February 10th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
The 1918 flu pandemic is estimated to have caused the death of between 50 million and 100 million people in approximately 18 months (Source: US National Archives)From ABC News/Reuters:
Strep infections and not influenza may have killed most people during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which suggests predictions about a new pandemic could be exaggerated, say US researchers.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 100 Million, 1918 Influenza, 50 Million, Abc News, Antibiotics, Antiviral Drugs, Bacterial Infections, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emory University Atlanta, Flu, Flu Pandemic, Infectious Diseases, Influenza, Influenza Pandemic, Klugman, National Archives, Professor Keith, Reuters, Strep Infections, Us National Archives Comments Off December 4th, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
From Live Science:
In a good mood? Your neighbor, her friends and even her friends’ friends should thank you – you’re likely infecting them with your cheer. Happiness spreads through social networks about as easily as the flu, according to a new study.
The researchers analyzed data compiled from nearly 5,000 interconnected people over a 20-year period.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Baseline, California San Diego, Cheer, Flu, Giddiness, Good Mood, Happiness, Head Researcher, James Fowler, Likelihood, Live Science, Neighbor, Participant, Ripple, Sadness, Social Networks, University California, University Of California, University Of California San Diego Comments Off
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