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The FDA have issued a warning about the adminsitration of flu shots. The FDA is concerned that no safety data has been supplied for flu shots which are adminstered using jet injectors. A flue shot shot should remain as a needle shot or as a nasal spray.
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While headlines decry the rising H1N1 death toll, news is emerging that there have been no more deaths from this pandemic than from seasonal flu.
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 Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at odds over the severity of this season's flu virus.
 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported the lowest influenza infection rate in 30 years of tracking flu activity, as well as the slowest recorded start to the flu season.
 Heading into the Family Day weekend, only 202 people had been diagnosed with the flu this season. That compares to 3,059 at this time last year.
 Flu and cold season is very much upon us, judging by the sniffles and sneezing going around in most parts of Canada. CBC Community members have told us their go-to remedies for the common cold. What's yours?
Experts have delayed a decision on whether controversial research into the H5N1 bird flu virus should be released.
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Seasonal flu Blogs
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Important research finding: a vaccine for norovirus, which is highly infectious and is difficult to kill by cleaning,...
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Information presented by PharmPro suggests that ten people have died in Cambodia, Indonesia, Egypt, China and Vietnam...
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The journal Nature has reported that, on a global scale, that bird flu surveillance is in a poor shape. The journal...
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. have indicated that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have approved Qnasl, a...
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Many people get sick from norovirus each year. The disease is often called vomiting illness, and it can spread rapidly....
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