Swine Flu News
Fifteen children in Finland were diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving swine flu vaccine – but it could have occurred by chance (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Measures to protect against swine flu sent the number of consultations in Scotland "through the roof", according to official figures (Source: Management in Practice)
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is investigating a possible link between the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix and cases of narcolepsy. (Source: Pulse)
The objectives of the study were to: "Identify, retrieve and assess all studies evaluating the effects of vaccines against influenza in healthy adults."The Search Criteria: "We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library, 2010, issue 2), MEDLINE (January 1966 to June 2010) and EMBASE (1990 to June 2010)."Selection Criteria (for inclusion in the study): "Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-RCTs comparing influenza vaccines with placebo or no intervention in naturally-occurring influenza in healthy individuals aged 16 to 65 years. We also included comparative studies assessing serious and rare harms."The Total Scope of the study encompassed over 70,000 people. And just so you know, these the results may strongly favor the vaccine indus...
A widely used swine flu vaccine has been placed under investigation after reports it causes cases of the rare sleeping disorder narcolepsy (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Millions of Britons have been given a swine flu vaccine that may be linked to a rare sleeping disorder and is under review by the UK medicines regulator (Source: Pharmacy Europe)
Two public health groups are calling for mandatory flu shots for all health care workers after a sizeable percentage of them refused vaccinations during last yearâ??s H1N1 ("swine flu") pandemic. The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America make the case in the pages of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, noting that health care workers are already required to have regular tuberculosis skin tests and proof of other vaccinations. (Source: Health Facts and Fears)
Conclusions:
The H1N1v NS1 gene was more conserved than that of previous epidemic strains. In addition, a closer genetic identity of H1N1v with the swine than the human reference strains was shown. Hot-spots were shown in the H1N1v NS1 aa sequence whose biologic relevance remains to be investigated. (Source: Virology Journal)
Transcript from Dr. Thomas Frieden's remarks at the 2010 Influenza Workshop for Journalists held Monday, August 23, 2010. (Source: CDC Swine Flu Updates)
Oft-Cited Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline on the Hook for Possible Problems with Pandemrix Vaccine (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
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