1 in 4 Americans Got Swine Flu Vaccine

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Published April 1, 2010 at 6:33 p.m.

By the end of January 2010, nearly 1 in 4 Americans got their H1N1 swine flu shot. Vaccination rates were highest in Rhode Island (39%) and lowest in Mississippi (13%) ...

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Next Year, Just 1 Flu Shot

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Published Feb. 18, 2010 at 6:29 p.m.

The H1N1 swine flu vaccine will be included in the 2010-11 fall/winter seasonal flu vaccine for North America, the World Health Organization announced ...

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Pay your taxes, get a flu shot

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Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 4:08 p.m.

Oak Creek — You wonder how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies they could have sold . . . Seeing the long lines of people waiting to pay their property taxes at City Hall, the city Health Department decided it had a captive audience. So a sign was put up offering free swine flu vaccinations.Between Monday and late afternoon Wednesday, more than 75 of the temporarily idled taxpayers strolled over to the Health Department to get stuck, city Health Officer Judi Price said ...

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Single H1N1 Swine Flu Shot for Kids?

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Published Dec. 21, 2009 at 11:32 a.m.

Australian researchers report that one H1N1 swine flu shot may be enough for kids -- but the CDC warns that most kids will need two vaccine doses for protection ...

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Swine Flu Fading

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Published Dec. 17, 2009 at 12:32 p.m.

The swine flu pandemic has peaked, but federal health officials today urged the public to get vaccinated to prevent another outbreak ... “We have an ebbing second wave (of the flu) but we face an uncertain future,” said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control ... “It’s easy to say it’s over,” Frieden added, “but actually we don’t know what the future will hold” before the traditional flu season ends in May ... Since the flu first surfaced last April, 47

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Fed flu-shot recall

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Published Dec. 16, 2009 at 5:54 a.m.

ATLANTA -- Hundreds of thousands of swine-flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said yesterday ... The shots, made by Sanofi Pasteur, were distributed across ...

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Champaign-Urbana offers drive-through H1N1 vaccines

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Published Nov. 30, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
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Drive-through flu vaccinations making parents happy in Champaign-Urbana ... -- Elizabeth Lehmann didn't know exactly what to expect when she took her 3-year-old son, Noah, to get his swine flu shot. But as it turned out, it wasn't much different than grabbing a hamburger at the drive-through at McDonald's ...

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Seasonal Flu Vaccine May Cut Swine Flu Risk

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Published Nov. 20, 2009 at 12:14 p.m.

Military personnel who got last year's seasonal flu shot were 42% less likely to get mild H1N1 swine flu and 62% less likely to be hospitalized with the pandemic flu ...

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H1N1 shot tops Santa's Christmas list

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Published Nov. 17, 2009 at 11:35 p.m.

CONCORD, N.H. - Forget cookies and milk. Santa wants the swine flu vaccine ... Many of the nation's Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine and not just because of those runny-nosed kids. There's also the not-so-little matter of that round belly. Research has suggested obesity could be a risk factor ...

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Questions about swine flu vaccine

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Published Nov. 17, 2009 at 7:43 p.m.

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate, that is the question.Brooklyn parents have mixed opinions about the H1N1 vaccine, with some touting its merits and others flat out refusing to subject their children to the shot.“Parents are saying, ‘Are you doing it ...

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