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Typically, influenza is transmitted from infected mammals through the air by coughs or sneezes, creating aerosols containing the virus, and from infected birds through their droppings. Influenza can also be transmitted by saliva, nasal secretions, feces and blood. Infections also occur through contact with these body fluids or with contaminated surfaces.
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Many big drug companies say they make vaccines to earn the public's goodwill, but for a newcomer like Novavax, the success of an avian flu vaccine would help the firm break into the lucrative drug business and raise its profile with ...
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Deirdre Imus: Over Medicated and Over-Vaccinated: The Unintended ...
Unfortunately for the kids, it remained in children's vaccines for another decade and remains in some vaccines like the influenza (25 micrograms) and tetanus vaccine (25 micrograms) today and in trace amounts (3 micrograms) in some ...
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Parents Lose The Right To Choose: News, Facts, and Controversy ...
I haven't been silent about my distrust with the pharmaceutical industry, and most recently with the collaboration between this industry and our government...specifically the rush to make the HPV vaccine mandatory for 9 to 12 year old ...
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The Dangers of Manditory Vaccines
The flu vaccine has never been effective. The versions of the flu that ends of spreading around, even among those not inoculated, has never been one of the ones for which the vaccine covers. If people who didn’t get the vaccine got the ...
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Interesting Quote From a Reuter's Article Today
Experts agreed the obvious answer was to get more companies to make flu vaccines. But companies wanted a guaranteed market, as millions of doses of flu vaccines get thrown away, unused, every year. So the CDC has gradually widened its ...
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Data Feed
In the Phase I and Phase II trials for the split pandemic influenza vaccine, 160 volunteers from 3 to 70 years old, sorted into four different age groups, were enrolled. The volunteers received doses of 5ug, 10ug, 15ug or 30ug and were ...
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Health Care Rights
Insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies make billions in profits each year while people who really need treatment suffer and even die. By eliminating the profit component, the cost of health care would inevitably be driven down ...
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Booster Shot
By the 1980s vaccines had wiped out so many diseases, and vaccine prices had fallen so far, some companies gave up searching for new ones. Vaccines were also dogged by safety issues, including the swine flu vaccine fiasco of 1976, ...
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Sticky sticking subject
My son will also not be receiving the flu vaccine. I don't know what my husband will choose to do, he's diabetic so his doctor always pushes it every year but it's his decision to make. I think receiving foreign substances directly into ...
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Americans urged to get flu shots, by companies that make them...Hmmmm
With a record amount of flu vaccine expected nationally this year, mass immunization programs will begin as early as next week in doctor's offices, clinics, stores and senior centers across the Washington area. ...
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Vaccinations against influenza are most commonly given to high-risk humans in industrialized countries and to farmed poultry. The most common human vaccine is the trivalent flu vaccine that contains purified and inactivated material from three viral strains. Typically this vaccine includes material from two influenza A virus subtypes and one influenza B virus strain. A vaccine formulated for one year may be ineffective in the following year, since the influenza virus changes rapidly over time and different strains become dominant. Antiviral drugs can be used to treat influenza, with neuraminidase inhibitors being particularly effective.
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