HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing that H1N1 vaccines (swine flu vaccines) produced by four manufacturers — CSL Ltd., Novartis, Sanofi-Pasteur and Medimmune — had won FDA approval, paving the way for a large-scale U.S. H1N1 swine flu vaccination campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports. Full article [...]
(Reuters) – Younger children will need two doses of the vaccine against the new pandemic of H1N1 influenza, U.S. officials said on Monday. They said tests of Sanofi-Pasteur’s (SASY.PA) swine flu vaccine showed children respond to it just as they do to seasonal flu vaccines, with children over 10 needing only a single dose. Dr. [...]
(New York Times) Several prominent epidemiologists are warning that even though the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine works much better than expected, it will still come too late to blunt the peak of this season’s pandemic. The epidemiologists said Friday that they expected the peak to come as early as next month, long before enough [...]
(New York Times) Defying the expectations of experts, clinical trials are showing that the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine protects with only one dose instead of two, so the H1N1 vaccine supplies now being made will go twice as far as had been predicted. That means it should be possible to vaccinate — well before [...]
(Excerpt from Reuters report.) Flu experts themselves have little doubt the vaccine being made against H1N1 is safe. It is made using precisely the same technology as the annual seasonal flu vaccine, which is given to hundreds of millions of people every year. But because is new, vaccine makers have been testing it to [...]
Health officials may return to that method of mass inoculation, in an effort to contain the spread of the H1N1 flu virus this fall among school-age children… Vaccine for the H1N1 virus will be shipped to each state in October… Full article here.
(HealthDay News) – As clusters of H1N1 swine flu break out on U.S. college campuses, school administrators are beefing up efforts to encourage students to take preventative steps to keep the virus from spreading further. Full article here.
(HealthDay News) — Every person who is infected with the H1N1 swine flu puts 1.5 other people at risk over the three days before coughing, fever and other symptoms appear. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. Anyone showing early symptoms of the flu needs [...]
