Flu Vaccine News
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When a ship’s crew in the Bering Sea contracted an intestinal illness in late 2012, United Parcel Service Inc. flew in medicine by helicopter. It sent $9 million of flu vaccines to Laos, too, keeping them at a constant temperature for five days across 9,000 miles.
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Bird flu was found in a 4-year-old Beijing boy who has no symptoms of the infection, health authorities said, suggesting more people may be catching the H7N9 influenza virus than reported.
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A surge in bird flu cases in China increases the pandemic potential of the H7N9 strain, according to a Beijing-based supplier of influenza vaccines to the Chinese government.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc and the Texas A&M University System won U.S. approval for a $91 million flu vaccine plant that can be used to produce treatments in response to pandemics or biological attacks.
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A more effective flu vaccine is needed for the elderly because of their diminished ability to fight off the illness and increased risk of dying from the infection, U.S. health authorities said.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc sued Hospira Inc. seeking more than $25 million in damages over the quality of influenza vaccine supplies.
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Novavax Inc., a Rockville, Maryland- based biotechnology company, climbed 4.9 percent after reporting positive results from two early trials of its avian influenza vaccine.
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Vaccines for the 2009 swine flu virus carry a small increased risk of a rare paralyzing disease, though the benefits of the shots far outweigh their risks, according to a study funded by the U.S. government.
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Novartis AG’s first-quarter profit climbed 49 percent, boosted by sales of H1N1 pandemic flu shots and new medicines to treat blindness and brittle bones.
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Australia’s government said children aged five years and younger shouldn’t be given CSL Ltd.’s seasonal flu vaccine after reports of a spike in fever and convulsions among kids in Western Australia.
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