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NEWS ABOUT: seasonal flu

seasonal flu stories: 3 news summaries

Drugstore Sorry After Clerk Scares Child With Flu

Employee refuses to serve boy with with mask: 'I'm not dying'

Nov 5, 09 4:28 PM CST
(Newser) - A New Hampshire drugstore has apologized to a customer after a pharmacy clerk enacted her own quarantine. Scott Sullivan’s 12-year-old son was told he probably had the flu by a doctor, who gave him a paper mask because he was coughing. At a local Walgreens, the clerk took one... More »

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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

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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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