District Health Boards are urging people to get the seasonal influenza vaccine as the flu season kicks off and hospitals […]
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Flu reaching ‘epidemic’ proportions? – Expert responds
Claims that an influenza epidemic of swine flu proportions are set to overwhelm the country are overblown, according to virologists […]
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Kate Newton writes in the Dominion Post about findings in a New Zealand-based study that show that two different flu […]
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New Zealand-based research has shown that, for people who get both seasonal A(H1N1) and pandemic flu (H1N1) flu at the […]
Continue readingMedia coverage: Fluvax vaccine concerns
Concern was sparked last week as there were reports in Australia that the Fluvax flu vaccine had had negative effects […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: Two types of ‘flu, water, and 3 degrees C
Swine flu – lessons one year on This time last year, as Kiwis prepared to attend weekend dawn parade and […]
Continue readingFlu jab for kids halted in Australia pending investigation
Australia’s Chief Medical Officer today told doctors in Australia to stop giving the seasonal flu vaccine to children under the […]
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