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Flu Pandemic Slacks Off, But 'It's Not Over'

Tamiflu-resistant cluster crops up in NC; 3 of 4 patients dead

5 hours, 26 minutes ago
(Newser) - The swine flu outbreak is slacking off in some areas, but don't get complacent, officials say: Pandemics naturally fluctuate. "There can be multiple ups and downs over the season," says a CDC doctor. "We have many weeks ahead of us where disease is going to be circulating.... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • influenza • Tamiflu • Duke University Medical Center. • pandemic • antiviral drugs • swine flu • H1N1 virus • CDC

 Swine Flu Shrinks
Nation's Blood Supply 

Donor pool dries up amid absenteeism at schools, offices

Nov 10, 09 7:50 AM CST
(Newser) - America's blood supply is suffering from the H1N1 pandemic. Blood centers nationwide are seeing a drop in donations as school and businesses cancel blood drives because of absenteeism; they're also having to dump blood already donated as an increasing number of donors report flu-like symptoms after giving. Centers say they... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • blood • blood drives • blood transfusions • pandemic • blood donor • swine flu • H1N1 virus

Shortage of Seasonal Flu Vaccine Looms

Supplies running low, manufacturers
can't make more

Nov 5, 09 1:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Severe shortages of seasonal flu vaccines are expected across the country in coming weeks as supplies run short amid increasing demand. Manufacturers have committed their production to making H1N1 vaccines and lack the capacity to make any more seasonal flu vaccines this year. The director of the CDC told lawmakers... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • vaccination • vaccine • influenza • swine flu • H1N1 virus • seasonal flu

H1N1 OUTBREAK

 Feds Release Last of 
 Kids Tamiflu Stockpile 

Swine flu has killed at least 114 US children and teens

Oct 30, 09 10:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the swine flu outbreak taking an enormous, and sometimes fatal, toll on American kids, the Centers for Disease Control today released the last of its stockpiles of the children’s version of flu drug Tamiflu. Some 114 youngsters have been reported killed by the virus, and the actual number... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Tamiflu • Roche • US stockpiles • swine flu • H1N1 virus • women's issues • flu season

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 Vaccine Delay 
 Aggravates 
 Swine Flu 
 Fears 

Uncertainty of supply makes scheduling immunization clinics tough

Oct 18, 09 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Production delays that are slowing the distribution of the H1N1 flu vaccine could hardly have come at a worse time, with the death toll in young people mounting and antivaccine activists seizing on any chance to make their position heard. Experts point out that the H1N1 version uses the same... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • immunization • vaccine • influenza • swine flu • H1N1 virus • CDC • seasonal flu

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 Swine Flu Spreads to 
 'Virtually Entire Country' 

H1N1 has claims 76 children since April

Oct 9, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - The swine flu is “widespread” in 37 states, the CDC says, and extended into 10 new states this week. And reports that areas where flu activity was relatively high last spring will be spared this winter are incorrect—in 50 such locations under study, "the vast majority of... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • influenza • swine flu • H1N1 virus • CDC

(Newser) - From spinach to peanut butter, consumers have weathered plenty of food scares recently. So the Center for Science in the Public Interest combed through CDC data to identify the foods most likely to harbor foodborne illness. Starting with the most dangerous:
  1. Leafy greens: Your salad could easily be coated
... More »

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food • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • tuna • eggs • salmonella • norovirus • potatoes • salad

Autism Much More Common Than We Thought: CDC

New survey shows 1 in every 100 kids autistic

Oct 5, 09 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Roughly 1 in every 91 American 8-year-olds has been diagnosed with autism, a rate significantly worse than the 1 in 150 estimated in 2007, finds a new CDC survey that will be released later this year. The study showed that autism is “an urgent public health concern,” CDC... More »

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 Swine Flu Victims 
 Could Swamp Hospitals 

CDC estimates are more than US can handle

Oct 1, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hospitals will be in big trouble if the swine flu outbreak matches the flu pandemic of 1968. In that mild pandemic, 35% of Americans got sick. If that happened today, 15 states would run out of hospital beds, and another dozen would have to fill 75% of their beds with... More »

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OPINION

CDC Must Stop Advocating Circumcision

Male procedure just as backward as reviled female version

Sep 29, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Virtually everyone in the Western world seems to agree that female circumcision is horrible. It greatly reduces sexual pleasure, violates individual autonomy, and provides no discernible health benefits. Well, all that is true of male circumcision, too, writes Ethan Epstein, yet the CDC is considering a plan to “promote... More »

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AIDS • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • female circumcision • genital mutilation • circumcision • female genital mutilation

First Swine Flu Vaccine Will Be Nasal Spray

But pregnant women, newborns should wait
for needle version

Sep 18, 09 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first Americans to take a swine flu vaccine will be spraying it up the nose, NPR reports. About 3.4 million hits of the nasal spray will come out early next month, a couple of weeks ahead of 195 million by-the-needle doses. Dubbed FluMist, the spray carries a live... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • vaccine • influenza • nasal passages • swine flu • H1N1 virus

Hand-Washing Might Not
Help Much Against Flu

Some scientist say it's airborne, not spread by touch

Sep 16, 09 7:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Everyone from Elmo to President Obama is telling people to wash their hands to avoid getting the swine flu, and Disney could make a killing on “Musical Hand Wash Timers” featuring its stable of characters. But Newsweek talks to scientists skeptical of the approach: Hand-washing might be great for... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • public health • vaccination • pandemic • airborne contaminants • swine flu • H1N1 virus

Rush to Obama: Hands Off
My Private Parts

Limbaugh makes leap from CDC advisory to mandatory circumcision

Aug 28, 09 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh says President Obama is out to get his foreskin. Seriously. Or at least semi-seriously. It all started when the the Centers for Disease Control reported that it's thinking of issuing an advisory touting the health beneifits of male circumcision in infancy, writes Gabriel Winant for Salon. Conservative blogger... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • parenting • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Rush Limbaugh • circumcision • President Obama • death panel

Snags Threaten Massive Vaccination Drive

Cost, confusion with seasonal flu could mar government's efforts

Aug 23, 09 10:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - US health officials are readying an unprecedented swine flu vaccination campaign for this fall, but the initiative is already dogged by experts' doubts and a raft of unknowns, the Washington Post reports. Only a third of the expected vaccine supply will arrive by October, and officials fear confusing the public... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • vaccine • flu shot • swine flu • H1N1 virus • flu season

Web Apps
Keep Tabs on National Mood

They troll mountains of online data seeking economic indicators

Aug 18, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Web-based tools have become increasingly adept at measuring a critical economic indicator: the nation’s mood. Whereas old indicators were based on surveys, these applications sift through mountains of online data, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. TweetFeel, for example, looks for select words and emoticons on Twitter. Other systems do... More »

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Google • Internet • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • consumer confidence • emotion • Twitter • Jay-ZTV • collective emotion • Google Trends • Google Insights for Search • flu season • TweetFeel • Emotionr.com

Don't Close for Swine Flu: Feds to Schools

Shutting down is 'last resort' if 'high numbers' of students fall ill

Aug 7, 09 5:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Health officials issued new guidelines today to help schools handle swine flu cases, advising them to close only if "high numbers" of students fall ill, USA Today reports. Closing down should be “a last resort, not a first resort,” US Education Secretary Arne Duncan said. The... More »

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(Newser) - Pregnant women and people who care for infants will be first in line for the swine flu vaccine this fall, the Washington Post reports. Infants, children and young adults under 24, chronically ill adults aged 25 to 64, and health care workers are the other top priority groups under guidelines... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • public health • epidemic • vaccination • vaccine • influenza • pandemic • pregnant women • swine flu • H1N1 virus

(Newser) - The Federal Reserve is the least trusted of all federal agencies, a new Gallup poll finds. Just 30% of respondents said the Fed was doing a “good” or “excellent” job, giving it the lowest score out of nine agencies included in the poll. That’s a steep decline... More »

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NASA • Ben Bernanke • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Federal Reserve • approval ratings • poll numbers • Gallup • federal agencies

(Newser) - The medical cost of obesity has almost doubled over the last decade to $147 billion annually, a new study finds. Treating obesity-related disorders now accounts for almost 10% of the total spending on health care, reports Bloomberg. Each obese person costs the government or insurers an average of $1,429—... More »

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obesity • health care • health care costs • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • RTI International

 Teen Pregnancies,  
 STDs Increase: CDC 

Figures raise concerns after positive trends

Jul 20, 09 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - After declining in 1991-2005, the US teen birth rate climbed in 2006 and 2007, HealthDay News reports. Crunching numbers from 2002-07, the Centers for Disease Control found a number of trends had flatlined or worsened after a period of improvement.
  • 2004 saw 745,000 pregnancies among females under 20,
... More »

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AIDS • HPV • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • HIV • syphilis • STD • chlamydia • gonorrhea • teen pregnancy • sexual assault • adolescents • teenager • sexually transmitted diseases

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