2004 Vaccination Shortage In 2004, the British companyChironannounced that none of its flu vaccine (Fluvirin), about 46 million doses, would be available for the 2004-05 flu season. Without Chiron's vaccines, the nation's flu vaccine supply was cut in half. By early October 2004, 30 mill...
Untrue, every year Alberta holds mass flu vaccination clinics so those who wish to be vaccinated can do so for free. The other provinces you mentioned all still hold seasonal vaccination clinics. Just an FYI. Andrea I am sooo thankful to everyone for your comments. I haven’t felt this b...
A study conducted in Singapore to assess flu vaccine knowledge, attitudes, and practices among diabetic patients found that 59.3% of the participants believed that vaccination was an effective tool to prevent influenza and its complications. Although most participants thought that vaccination was effective...
Influenza vaccination should be included in the expanded program on immu- nization (EPI) of Pakistan, which aims to decrease childhood morbidity and mortality due to vaccine pre- ventable diseases. Abbreviations ILI: Influenza like illness; SARI: Severe acute respiratory syndrome; IAV: Influenza A...
[Well, so far H5N1 is a killer strain almost exclusively in poultry. We must be talking about bird flu in birds.] France is in a flap and has started a mass vaccination programme [that’s in poultry; there’s no human vaccine yet] after the flu was found in a turkey farm. The ...
The CDC recommends that high-risk individuals get a flu vaccination each year. What is the Avian Flu? You may have heard talk on the news about the avian flu. The avian flu is a type of the A strain virus that infects birds. Typically, humans cannot catch the flu from birds, but a...