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Health Department Reports This Season’s First Lab-Confirmed Flu Case In The Northeast Region

Jan 3rd 2009Drug InformationFlu / SARS

A girl in Lehigh County is this season’s first state laboratory-confirmed case of influenza in Pennsylvania’s northeast region, the Department of Health said today. “We want to remind Pennsylvanians that it’s still early in the flu season and it is not too late to get a flu shot,” said acting Health Secretary Everette James. “It is the best way to protect yourself and those around you, and there is plenty of vaccine available.

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Scientists Isolate Genes That Made 1918 Flu Lethal

Jan 3rd 2009Drug InformationFlu / SARS

By mixing and matching a contemporary flu virus with the “Spanish flu” a virus that killed between 20 and 50 million people 90 years ago in history’s most devastating outbreak of infectious disease researchers have identified a set of three genes that helped underpin the extraordinary virulence of the 1918 virus.

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CDC Officials Urge Flu Vaccinations, Especially For Minorities

Dec 19th 2008Drug InformationFlu / SARS

CDC officials earlier this month at an ethnic media roundtable in Los Angeles expressed the importance of vaccinations to prevent the spread of the flu, New America Media reports. The roundtable, held Dec.

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