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| | Flu, NIAID Fact Sheet |
 | | Sometimes, an unpredicted new strain may appear after the vaccine has been made and distributed to doctor's offices and clinics. | | | If you do get the flu and want to take medicine to treat it, your health care provider may prescribe one of four available antiviral medicines | | | Your health care provider can help you decide which medicine is best for you. |
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| | USATODAY.com - USA got improperly made flu vaccine |
| | The 2003 report, which focuses on the 2001-2002 vaccine, also "raises serious questions" about the quality of vaccine the plant produced three years ago, Waxman says: "I see no clear evidence that individuals were harmed, but it is certainly a situation we do not want to repeat." | | | "I don't feel confident that the plant's vaccine was safe and effective based on its non-compliance with good manufacturing practices," says Sarah Sellers, a drug safety consultant and FDA adviser who reviewed the report. | | | Without good manufacturing practices, the World Health Organization says, it "is impossible to be sure that every unit of a medicine is of the same quality as the units... |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-02-09-vaccine-problems_x.htm
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| | When I first started practicing medicine over 20 years ago, the flu vaccine was only indicated for those over 60 years if age or with chronic health conditions. | | | Most Americans want a quick fix, but while that might work in other areas of their life, the quick fix approach is not healthcare. | | | For that matter, you’ll get to be much less concerned about getting cancer, heart disease, and all of the other very serious chronic diseases out there, too. |
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http://www.mercola.com/2003/dec/13/flu_vaccine.htm
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| | ScienCentral Video News: Flu Vaccine |
| | Webster and Webby's research appeared in the November 28, 2003 issue of Science and the August 26, 2002 issue of Nature Medicine. | | | Federal health officials maintain that the strain was discovered too late to make a new vaccine. | | | "We have to try to get a vaccine ready in faster than six months," says Webster. |
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http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392138
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Blue Flu) |
| | Before 1993, manufacturers sold vaccines to doctors, doctors prescribed them to patients, and there was some markup. | | | Recently British health officials stopped Chiron from distributing and making the vaccine when inspectors found unsanitary conditions in the labs. | | | Why is our vaccine made in the UK and not the US? |
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/flushot.asp
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| | Influenza (Flu) |
| | For the most part, though, the flu is usually gone in a week or two with a little rest and tender loving care. | | | Since it's often nearly impossible to keep kids cooped up, here are some other things you and your family can do to help prevent the spread of infections like the flu: | | | But some kids who have chronic medical conditions may become sicker with the flu - and may require hospitalization. |
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http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/flu.html
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| | Cancer or other diseases for which they are taking medicines that shut down their immune systems. | | | As always, you need to talk to your own or your child'd doctor to help decide if you or your child should receive the vaccine.) | | | Although several researchers claim that there is evidence of such poisoning, and in particular an increased risk of autism with thimerosal-containing vaccines, this has not been well-proven, and several large studies in different countries show no change in the occurence of autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders between children given thimerosal-containing and thimerosal-free vaccines. |
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| | CBER - Flu (Influenza) Vaccine 2000-2001 |
| | Residents of nursing homes and other chronic-care facilities with residents of any age who have chronic medical conditions. | | | Are you a doctor or other health care provider who is looking for influenza vaccine? | | | ACIP has also recommended that, to optimize the availability of vaccine to these high risk individuals, health care providers and other organizations delay the implementation of organized vaccination programs for non-high risk groups until November 2000 or later. |
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| | This exposes provides more motivation to further my personal mission to topple the existing health care paradigm. | | | Allopathic doctors like Miller forget the most basic principles of health and disease because they do not care to look into the realities of the patients they treat. | | | They would not stop and think that patients who exercise would be better protected from the dangers of flu then from patients who took vaccines. |
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http://www.mercola.com/2004/oct/23/flu_crimes.htm
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| | UMMS Feature Story - Flu Vaccine Facts |
| | Adults and children 6 months and older with chronic heart or lung conditions, including asthma | | | People with any condition that makes it hard to breathe or swallow, such as brain injury or disease, spinal cord injuries, seizure disorders or other nerve or muscle disorders | | | Robert Edelman, M.D., associate director for clinical research at the University of Maryland Center for Vaccine Development and professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, agrees. |
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http://www.umm.edu/features/flu_vac.html
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Stockpile bird flu vaccine now |
| | But the failure to halt the H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in Asia, and the growing number of human cases (see table), is changing minds. | | | But it is possible to do safety tests and work out the dose needed to produce an immune response. | | | Because these vaccines have been made at different plants using different production methods they must be tested separately. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7012
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Flu vaccine goes five times further |
| | In an editorial accompanying the papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease in the US, says the technique “offers great promise to change and improve on current immunisation strategies”. | | | A fifth of the usual dose of flu vaccine can elicit just as much protection against influenza as the usual jab as long as it is put into skin and not into muscle, two separate studies have found. | | | Intradermal injection - into the skin - is already used for the anti-TB vaccine BCG. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6623
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| | Wired News: Quickie Bird Flu Vaccine Created |
| | "We never manipulated the actual H5N1 virus ourselves, so it is safe to generate this kind of vaccine." | | | Gambotto also hopes the nasal vaccine might work better in people than it did in animals, because the vaccine uses a live human adenovirus. | | | "This is a very potent vaccine," Dr. Andrea Gambotto of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who led the study, said in a phone interview. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/wireservice/0,70102-0.html?tw=rss.index
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| | NCPA - Brief Analysis 493, What’s Behind the Flu Vaccine Shortage |
| | Vaccination is one of the most beneficial and cost-effective health interventions. | | | Vaccines should be a moneymaker for drug firms. | | | The few individual patients suffering serious injury could be compensated by the government, as is the case with children’s vaccines. |
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http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba493
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| | NPR : U.S. Faces Flu Vaccine Shortage |
| | All of these drugs are prescription drugs, and a doctor should be consulted before the drugs are used for preventing the flu. | | | The flu is an illness affecting the respiratory system, including the lungs, sinus and nasal passages. | | | The only drug effective against the flu is called an antiviral. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4073505
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| | CDC - Influenza (Flu) Key Facts About Flu Vaccine |
| | LAIV: The viruses in the nasal-spray vaccine are weakened and do not cause severe symptoms often associated with influenza illness. | | | This vaccine is not subject to prioritization and can be given to healthy 5-49 year olds at any time. | | | The flu shot is approved for use in people older than 6 months, including healthy people and people with chronic medical conditions. |
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| | Flu (Influenza) Vaccine - CBER |
| | The expiration date of a vaccine is based on these studies. | | | Workshop on Development of Clinical Trial Plan for Pandemic Influenza Vaccines | | | Influenza usually comes on suddenly and may include these symptoms: fever, headache, malaise (a feeling of being ill and without energy that can be extreme), cough, sore throat, nasal congestion and body aches. |
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| | Flu Vaccine (Flu Shot, Influenza Immunization, Influenza Vaccine) |
| | A recent study showed that the flu vaccine may also be effective in preventing second heart attacks in people who have already had a heart attack. | | | Elderly individuals who are vaccinated against the flu have a significantly lower incidence of hospitalization for respiratory disease, congestive heart failure, and death from any cause. | | | In the study, people who received the flu vaccine had a 67% lower incidence of a second heart attack than the people who were not vaccinated that year. |
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http://www.3-rx.com/flu-vaccine/default.php
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| | Flu Vaccine Information by MedicineNet.com |
| | Although there are medications to treat the flu, they are expensive, not as effective as vaccination, and need to be started within 24-48 hours of the start of symptoms. | | | Flu is a respiratory infection, that is, an infection that develops primarily in the lungs. | | | The flu (or common flu) is a viral infection that is spread from person to person in secretions of the nose and lungs, for example when sneezing. |
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| | Bird Flu Vaccine Tests Promising - CBS News |
| | Researchers found that the H5N1 bird flu strain, the one scientists believe is most likely to spawn a potential pandemic, is so alien to the human body it takes two injections of vaccine using 90 micrograms of antigen apiece to get an adequate response from the human immune system. | | | However, many more vaccines would be needed if there were a pandemic. | | | Scientists tested the new vaccine on 300 people and found they could get a decent immune response from two injections using only 30 micrograms of antigen each. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/15/health/main1128202.shtml
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| | CDC Addresses Flu Vaccine Shortage |
| | Each year, Medical College of Wisconsin physicians care for more than 180,000 patients, representing nearly 500,000 patient visits. | | | Viruses for both vaccines are grown in eggs, which is why people with severe allergies to eggs should not receive the vaccines. | | | Intranasally administered, live, attenuated influenza vaccine (FluMist®), if available, should be encouraged for healthy persons who are aged 5-49 years and are not pregnant, including health-care workers (except those who care for severely immunocompromised patients in special care units) and persons caring for children aged |
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| | CNN.com - Makers of flu vaccine ship last of season's shots - Dec. 5, 2003 |
| | Flu symptoms include fever above 100 degrees, extreme tiredness, body aches, dry cough, sore throat and nasal congestion. | | | Scott Harper, an influenza specialist with the CDC, also urged anyone experiencing flulike symptoms to seek medical treatment. | | | Health officials said plenty of doses are still available at hospitals, HMOs and other health care facilities, though in some areas people may have to make an extra effort to find the vaccine. |
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| | Flu vaccine on order - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
| | Global health officials must determine how to make enough vaccine rapidly in the event of a pandemic and to build vaccine and anti-viral medicine stockpiles. | | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is fast-tracking the vaccine licensing process for some manufacturers to help ensure an adequate supply. | | | For example, the federal government last season urged health professionals to ration flu shots and give priority to high-risk groups, such as the elderly, infants and the chronically ill. The strategy worked well enough that some organizations had trouble using their stockpiles because so many people skipped getting shots. |
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| | Hayward/Fremont Medical Centers, Flu Vaccine Update |
| | Please note that vaccine is available for children 6 to 23 months old who have not received their first or second dose and members who are 65 years or older, pregnant, or who have a chronic condition like as diabetes, heart disease or asthma. | | | Any medical content that you feel may be important to your health should always be discussed with your Kaiser Permanente physician. | | | During the first week of flu clinics, Kaiser Permanente will emphasize giving flu shots to members who are at the highest risk of catching the flu or becoming seriously ill. These are: |
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| | BBC NEWS Health One 'cure all' flu jab for life |
| | However, these proteins keep mutating which means doctors have to keep making new vaccines to keep up. | | | "However this vaccine is still very early in a vaccine development pipeline and it will take some time to establish how this vaccine performs in human trials and whether it can proceed to being licensed for use in the UK." | | | Professor Maria Zambon, a flu expert at the Health Protection Agency, said: " We welcome advances in the process of developing novel flu vaccines and vaccination techniques. |
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| | Vaccine/Vaccination/Immunization Dangers - Flu Vaccine |
| | Is There A Vaccination Link To Chronic Fatigue Sydrome? | | | - Local and systemic immune response in community-dwelling elderly after intranasal or intramuscular immunization with inactivated influenza vaccine Journal of Medical Virology, Volume 61, Issue 1, 2000. | | | Any information obtained here is not to be construed as medical or legal advice. |
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| | U.S. Knew Last Year of Flu Vaccine Plant's Woes (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Symptoms include headaches, dry cough, muscle aches and fatigue, and possible congestion, sore throat and fever. | | | The shortage has caused widespread public anxiety and has forced health departments nationwide to laboriously reallocate vaccine after much of it already had been distributed. | | | Some experts have said that if the problems at the Liverpool plant had been recognized earlier, American public health officials might have been able to seek other sources of influenza vaccine on the world market. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health UK firm's bird flu vaccine hope |
| | PowerMed's vaccine is further away from the market than others, but as it is a DNA-based, it may be easier to produce than traditional egg-grown flu shots. | | | At present H5N1 flu strain poses only a limited threat to humans as it cannot be easily spread from person to person. | | | Unlike many other vaccines it would not need to be kept refrigerated and does not need to be produced in as secure an environment as ones grown in chicken eggs as the risk of contamination through a live virus is reduced. |
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| | Flu Vaccine Recommendations for Children Under Four - DrGreene.com |
| | Over-the-Counter Drugs for Cold, Flu, Allergy, and Sinus Infection | | | Because the vaccine has not been licensed for children under 6 months, it recommends that household contacts of these babies be vaccinated for their protection. | | | The focus of the flu shot campaign among healthy people has been on people aged 65 and older, because they have been considered to be at the highest risk for flu-related complications and hospitalization. |
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| | Scientists develop bird flu vaccine |
| | Since the newly developed vaccine contains a live virus, researchers say it may be more immune-activating than avian flu vaccines prepared by traditional methods. | | | "The results of this animal trial are very promising, not only because our vaccine completely protected animals that otherwise would have died, but also because we found that one form of the vaccine stimulates several lines of immunity against H5N1," said Dr. Andrea Gambotto, an assistant professor and lead author of the study. | | | Furthermore, because it is grown in cells, it can be produced much more quickly than traditional vaccines, thereby making it an extremely attractive candidate for preventing the spread of the virus in domestic livestock populations and, potentially, in humans. |
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| | CDC - Influenza (Flu) |
| | MMWR: Vaccination of Persons >65 Years and Persons 18-64 Years with High-Risk Conditions—U.S., 2003 | | | FDA Approves Second Drug for Prevention of Influenza A and B in Adults and Children NEW! | | | Q and A: Reconstruction of 1918 Pandemic Virus (see also the Press Release) |
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| | CNN.com - More flu shots will be available in January - Oct 19, 2004 |
| | The number was well below the 100 million doses needed for the U.S. market, and the shortage sparked long lines of patients seeking the vaccine at health clinics nationwide. | | | That group includes people over 65, children ages 6 months to 2 years, pregnant women, people with chronic illnesses and health care workers. | | | The president said the government was working with "state and local officials to make sure we distribute vaccines to the most vulnerable Americans throughout our country," and thanked those who didn't get a shot this year so that the vulnerable population would have them. |
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| | USATODAY.com - New flu vaccine, Fluarix, to be available for fall |
| | GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) Fluarix, which is widely used in Europe, got the Food and Drug Administration's OK under an accelerated approval process. | | | The CDC is expected to issue guidelines Friday on who should receive flu vaccine, based on the risk for severe consequences of flu and the available vaccine supply. | | | "Having more manufacturers of influenza vaccine licensed in the U.S., and having more vaccine dosages, is critical to public health." |
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| | FDA saw problems at flu vaccine plant in 2003 - Cold & Flu - MSNBC.com |
| | Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said Crawford’s assertion was part of a “pattern of misleading statements.” The FDA might have averted or at least mitigated the vaccine shortage if it had been vigilant, Waxman said. | | | The production process is designed to render the vaccine sterile, and there is no tie between one year’s batch and the next one, he said. | | | U.S. officials continued to assure the public that there would be sufficient vaccine as recently as two weeks before they learned that was not the case. |
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| | Kerry Ad Says Flu Vaccine Shortage Is Typical of Bush's Policy Blunders (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Flu Vaccine Allocation in Area Haphazard (The Washington Post, Oct 16, 2004) | | | In what may be the first presidential campaign commercial dealing with the flu, the Democratic nominee is trying to portray the vaccine squeeze as typical of the president's mishandling of health care. | | | Now Bush wants Canada to help, even though his own policies make it illegal for us to import medicine from Canada. |
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| | Bush, Kerry bicker over flu vaccine - Politics - MSNBC.com |
| | “If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health care program (are) you running? | | | He blamed a “major manufacturing defect” for the shortage, and sought to reassure his audience at the same time senior administration health officials worked to allay public concerns. | | | Kerry criticized Bush over the nation’s supply of flu vaccine, and said the president had presided over a four-year “all-out assault” on Social Security. |
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