Recent findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine provide some insights into H1N1 vaccine side effects. In clinical trials involving 120 persons involving a single dose of H1N1, there were no deaths, no serious adverse events or other events that would have triggered the tests to end. The most common reactions reported by [...]
News accounts have reported lingering public suspicion about the safety of the H1N1 vaccine. Much of this coverage traces to a widely reported Associated Press poll conducted Oct. 1-5, that found 72 percent of those surveyed are worried about side effects. More than half say that those concerns wouldn’t [...]
09 Oct 2009 Reuters reports, according to the Center for Disease Control, pandemic H1N1 flu is spreading in several states at a time when there is normally little to no influenza. CDC’s weekly FluView report revealed that 6.5 percent of all deaths in the last week of September were due to pneumonia and influenza. This [...]
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and subsequently
reported in Medpage found that Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in New Zealand
and Australia admitted significantly more patients during their winter flu
season.
Two Dutch scientists reported in ProMed, that two patients diagnosed with H1N1 A 2009 virus had a mutation in the PB2 protein. This mutation had been associated with increased virulence in other influenza A strains.
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