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4) "Myths About the Flu Vaccine" New York Times Well Blog (March 11, 2013) - "On Dec. 20, 1968, I got the flu. I remember it still: Christmas was a washout - I couldn't leave the bed unassisted or keep anything down, not even a taste of the goose that someone else had to cook. On New Year's Day I could hardly breathe, and my husband carried me to a doctor, who diagnosed double pneumonia. I didn't recover fully for three months. And I was pregnant - with twins, no less. The flu is no joke, especially not for pregnant women, the very young and the elderly, people who are chronically ill and those whose immune systems are suppressed. I managed to contract the flu during each of the three major outbreaks of Type A virus between 1957 and 1977. I never again want to be that sick - and I haven't been. I get a flu shot every fall before the season begins."
5) "Study: Flu likes weather cold and dry or humid and rainy" CIDRAP News (March 8, 2013) - "If peak influenza activity is an accurate measure, flu viruses prefer the weather either cold and dry or humid and rainy, according to an analysis of climate variables and flu patterns around the world. Researchers from several US universities and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reached this conclusion primarily by studying flu and climate data from 78 sites in 40 countries...Viboud said the findings could be used to refine flu transmission models, target surveillance efforts, and improve the timing of seasonal flu vaccine delivery, according to the release."
6) "Flu vaccine reduces flu hospitalizations" UPI (March 8, 2013) - "Flu vaccination can vary in effectiveness, but it reduces the risk of older adults being hospitalized with complications, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Keipp Talbot of Vanderbilt University Medical Center said the study found flu vaccination reduced the risk of flu-related hospitalization by 71.4 percent among adults of all ages and by 76.8 percent in study participants age 50 and older during the 2011-12 flu season."
7) "Proposed Tennessee law would require meningitis vaccinations for college students" The Commercial Appeal (TN)(March 10, 2013) - "Chris Wilson believes his nephew would still be alive if his college had required him to get a meningitis vaccination. A proposed new Tennessee law might save some lives. Middle Tennessee State University freshman Jacob Nunley died last year less than 24 hours after contracting meningococcal meningitis, a bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. 'That's the most difficult thing to deal with,' Wilson said, 'the fact that the vaccination was there. All he had to do was get it.'"
8) "SC targets 7th graders for whooping cough vaccine" Associated Press (March 9, 2013) - "South Carolina 7th graders will be forced to roll up their sleeves for a vaccine that will keep them in class and protect infants at home. Starting this fall all students entering seventh grade will have to be up to date on the vaccine that protects against whooping cough. The requirement by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control comes as childhood immunizations have dropped and cases of whooping cough have spiked statewide."
9) "Controversy surrounds vaccine forum set to take place Tuesday" Global BC (CANADA) (March 10, 2013) - "You don't often find flag-waving parents loudly voicing their support for vaccinations, but with 93 per cent of B.C.'s children complying with the recommended schedule, they are clearly a silent majority, until you ask for their opinion. The vaccination debate is once again front and centre as SFU Harbour Centre gets ready to host a forum on Tuesday organized by the Vaccine Resistance Movement. The group opposes vaccines and claims it causes autism...despite the fact that research has been retracted and declared a fraud."
11) "The Scariest Reason To Get The Shingles Vaccine" Common Health (March 8, 2013) - "First came several hours of blackest end-of-vacation stress. Not over anything truly serious, just garden-variety panic, as in, "We forgot the wallet and we're late for the plane but just took the wrong exit for the airport." It brewed inside me for hours amid my self-recriminations on the endless flight home. Then, as we were finally filing off the plane, I felt a prolonged itchiness on the left side of my torso. Discreetly peeking under my shirt, I found a cluster of red pinpoints, sprinkled in a strip near my navel. 'Oh, hell, not this too,' I thought. 'Maybe it's shingles from all that stress. I knew I should have gotten that shot.'"
12) "Australian Vaccination Network faces deregistration over name change" Adelaide Now (AU) (March 11, 2013) - "THE future of the Australian Vaccination Network is in doubt, following the government rejection of five suggested new names for the group because they don't reflect its anti-vaccination stance. The AVN has until March 21 to change its name or it faces deregistration, after NSW Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts issued a formal order that its name misleads the public."
13) "Protein Sciences' Pitch: a "Pure" Flu Vaccine Alternative" Xconomy (March 11, 2013) - "The small private company Protein Sciences skirted bankruptcy, fought off a hostile takeover bid, spent three years angling for a sorely-needed government contract, and survived a four-year dialogue with the FDA before winning approval this year for the first influenza vaccine made with genetic engineering and without eggs. Now comes the hard part. The 115-employee business, based in Meriden, CT, must build a customer base for its the vaccine, which it markets as Flublok, in a $1 billion US market dominated by drug industry giants, including Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis, and GlaxoSmithKline."
14) "Oprah should devote a show to vaccine safety" KevinMD (March 8, 2013) - "I am sure Oprah had spectacular ratings for her Lance Armstrong interview and so, in the spirit of truth-telling, I have another mea culpa show for Ms. Winfrey to consider: vaccine safety. Until Jenny McCarthy got major air time the link between vaccines and autism was relatively fringe. But with Oprah in September of 2007 McCarthy, and by extension Andrew Wakefield, the erroneous link between vaccines and autism hit the jackpot. Oprah, instead of producing a show with any kind of balance simply read a brief statement from the CDC to counter McCarthy's 45 minute diatribe of warrior-mom-against-the-world. Whether by design or by chance Dr. Bob Sears' vaccine book was published the very next month and the rest, as they say, is history."
15) "Is This Cancer Drug Really a Vaccine?" Motley Fool (March 8, 2013) - "What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word 'vaccine?' The first thing I think about is the flu shot (that I probably should have gotten a few months ago), but you might also think about Jonas Salk's revolutionary polio research or smallpox, which was the first disease to be targeted with a vaccine. All of these are valid answers, and reinforce the concept that these drugs prevent you from getting sick. But that's not always the case."
16) "iPad App Highlights Appeal of Public Health" Shot of Prevention (March 8, 2013) - "What do pop culture and educational entertainment have to do with infectious diseases and vaccines? Well, they just may be the key to unlocking the passion of future epidemiologists. As a parent with several science-minded children, I was thrilled to download a clever new iPad app from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 'Solve the Outbreak' is a fun and interactive game where the player receives clues and analyzes data in order to solve the case and save lives."
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