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New SARS-like virus kills BritonA British man infected with a new virus from the same family as SARS has died, health officials said on Tuesday, bringing the worldwide death toll from the previously unknown disease to six. The More… |
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Heavy flu season helps Reckitt beat forecastsAn unusually severe cold and flu season in the United States has helped drive full-year profits higher at Britain's Reckitt Benckiser, maker of Strepsils throat lozenges and Mucinex decongestant. The intensity of the North Ame More… |
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Flu reaches epidemic level in USInfluenza has officially reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with 7.3 per cent of deaths last week caused by pneumonia and the flu, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The early start and fast sp More… |
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Breakthrough: Needle-free "nanopatch" vaccinesWhen it comes to protecting millions of people from deadly infectious diseases, Mark Kendall thinks a fingertip-sized patch covered in thousands of vaccine-coated microscopic spikes is the future. More… |
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GlaxoSmithKline wins US approval for new vaccineUS health regulators have approved a new four-strain seasonal influenza vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, the company said. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Fluarix Quadrivalent to immunise children age 3 and older More… |
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More study needed on GSK flu shot says WHOThe World Health Organisation (WHO) said more investigation was needed into the possible risk of narcolepsy, a rare sleeping disorder, from GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix H1N1 flu vaccine. A WHO advisory panel made the decision after a Finnis More… |
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Flu alert for Bahrain Haj pilgrimsHaj pilgrims from Bahrain, who will begin travelling to Saudi Arabia by road and air in November, are being urged to take precautions to protect them from seasonal viruses. Bahrain is gearing up to see off nearly 16,000 pilgrims during the More… |
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WHO set to declare end of H1N1 pandemicThe World Health Organisation is likely to announce that the H1N1 flu pandemic is over, indicating infection levels in most places have returned to those normal for seasonal influenza, health officials said. Any decision to downgrade the o More… |
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Everyone in US ‘should get flu vaccine’Everyone in the US over the age of six months should get seasonal influenza vaccines every year, federal vaccine advisers have said. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made the long-awaited vote to recommend virtually univers More… |
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New seasonal flu vaccine to contain H1N1 strainThe coming year's seasonal flu vaccine in the northern hemisphere should include protection against three strains of flu, including the pandemic H1N1 virus, the World Health Organisation recommended. The composition of the vaccine, announc More… |
