Swine Flu Vaccine Failure Rate 30%?

The WHO says more than 300 million people have been vaccinated against pandemic flu, and the immunisations, which have an excellent safety record, are 70-75 percent effective.
via Reuters AlertNet – H1N1 seen lying low, then rising again in Europe.

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Japan to produce their own vaccine?

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Daiichi Sankyo Co. are each considering producing vaccines for new and seasonal influenza, a move that would likely increase sharply supplies of domestically produced vaccines, sources close to the matter said Monday.
via Kyodo News – Story.

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H1N1 seen lying low, then rising again in Europe

Europe is unlikely to see another wave of pandemic H1N1 flu soon but local epidemics are likely as winter returns to the Northern hemisphere, health officials said on Monday.The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC said the H1N1 swine flu virus would probably spread at low levels during 2010’s spring and summer, and [...]

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6 mutations already noted in Swine Flu

We confirmed that the host-specific genomic signatures of 2009 H1N1pdm, which are mainly swine-like, were highly identical to those of the 1918 H1N1pdm. During the short period of time when the pandemic alert level was raised from phase 4 to phase 6, one signature residue at the position of NP-100 mutated from valine to isoleucine. [...]

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Rwanda – Swine flu returns

One month after the situation had stabilized; new cases of the influenza A, H1N1 commonly known as Swine flu have been confirmed in Burera district, Northern Province.
This was revealed yesterday, by Dr. Justin Wane, the Head of the Swine flu response team in the Ministry of Health.
According to Wane, at the beginning of February, the [...]

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Swine Flu’s Got New Genes On

The new strain, which came from a pig imported from mainland China, has been found in only one animal, and there’s no indication that it is particularly virulent. Still, pig farms in several countries have reported infection from humans to pigs of the novel H1N1, indicating that it can easily move back into its original [...]

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Swine Flu Not Hyped?

Even so, Canada resisted pulling out all the stops for H1N1. This was not the full pandemic flu plan in action. That plan, adopted in 2004 but not yet used, is far more sweeping. It involves setting up 165 mobile hospitals that hold up to 200 patients each, and using refrigeration trucks or even hockey [...]

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Tasmanian Pharmacy students training to immunise against swine flu

In a development that is set to further push the case of pharmacists to administer vaccinations, the pharmacy faculty at Charles Sturt University (CSU) has started training its students to immunise. Fourth year pharmacy students finishing at the end of this year will be qualified in administering vaccinations after the university introduced the component at [...]

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Vitamin D deficiency is why you get flu and other infections

A new study led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen has confirmed that vitamin D plays an important role in activating immune defenses against infectious diseases like flu.
Vitamin D deficiency has already been linked to a wide spectrum of diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, autoimmune disease and many others.
The study published in [...]

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Surplus dutch swine flu vaccines unsold

The health ministry has failed in its efforts to sell 19 million unwanted doses of swine flu vaccine to another country and is now seeking to sell them back to the manufacturers.  A spokeswoman for the ministry told Reuters news agency it had approached manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis about buying back the doses.
via DutchNews.nl – [...]

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