ATLANTA -- About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the US public has expired -- meaning that 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash ... "It's a lot, by historical standards," said Jerry Weir, who oversees vaccine research and review for ...
Sitting on millions of surplus vaccine doses for the novel H1N1 flu, health officials statewide are urging people to vaccinate ahead of a potential seasonal outbreak in the next few months as Southern Hemisphere countries enter winter ...
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%) ...
There hasn't been much talk about swine flu lately, but don't take it to mean the virus is gone. New cases continue to trickle in statewide, and health professionals aren't ruling out a potential third wave ...
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 ...
Federal health officials urged Friday that more Americans get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus, sometimes referred to as swine flu, which continues to kill ...
The government is making plans to offload millions of doses of swine flu vaccine amid predictions a "third wave" of the pandemic is unlikely to happen ...
This site was created to help deal with the H1N1 influenza flu pandemic. Flu preparation is important! You can have an immunization with the flu vaccine, you can have the flu shot; flu shots are good before you are showing flu symptoms, although the current trivalent influenza vaccine is unlikely to provide protection against the new 2009 H1N1 strain, vaccines against the new strain are being developed and could be ready as early as June 2009.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in humans the symptoms of H1N1 swine flu are similar to those of influenza and of influenza-like illness in general. Symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. The 2009 outbreak has shown an increased percentage of patients reporting diarrhea and vomiting.
Recommendations to prevent the spread of the virus among humans include using standard infection control against influenza. This includes frequent washing of hands with soap and water or with alcohol-based hand sanitizers, especially after being out in public.