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NEWS ABOUT: Inoculation

Inoculation stories: 3 news summaries
H1N1 OUTBREAK

 Vaccine Scarier 
 Than Swine Flu: Poll 

Concern high and building, but 60+% don't plan to get a shot

Oct 22, 09 2:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Americans are spooked by the growing threat of swine flu but even warier of the vaccine. Half of respondents in a recent Washington Post poll are a “great deal” or “somewhat” worried they or a family member will catch H1N1, up from 39% in August. But more... More »

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Health and Human Services • Congressional hearings • public health • children • Joe Lieberman • Inoculation • vaccination • vaccine • Kathleen Sebelius • pandemic • swine flu • H1N1 virus

Squeamish Feds Learn From 1976 Swine Flu Debacle

Panic and Gerald Ford caused hundreds to receive unnecessary shot

May 8, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Federal health officials are hoping to avoid a catastrophic case of déjà vu as they develop plans to inoculate Americans against swine flu, the Washington Post reports. A vaccine released during the 1976 flu outbreak left dozens dead and hundreds reporting serious side effects like blindness and paralysis. Now,... More »

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Inoculation • vaccine • Gerald Ford • Obama administration • swine flu

POX
STRIKES
BACK

Chickenpox docs want second doses of vaccine—but some parents are resisting

Mar 20, 07 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors now recommend that kids get a second dose of chickenpox vaccine, but a lot of wary parents are balking. A recent study concluded that the longer patients had gone since getting the first dose, the more likely they were to contract the pox, and the more likely that it... More »

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health care • chickenpox • disease • children • Inoculation • vaccination • immunization • vaccine • doctor

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