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Should we all just get hepatitis-A shots and be done with it? A vaccine has been available since 1995, and there are physicians, among them Dr. Philip Rosenthal at the University of California, San Francisco, who advocate adding it to the standard pediatric immunization schedule. But like most doctors...
Many infectious diseases that were nearly tamed during Mao's era are now rebounding or, at the very least, the battle against them has stalled. Schistosomiasis is just one example. Diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis B, which could have been curbed by a more public-minded health-care system, are...
Hate shots? FluMist, a new alternative vaccine for the influenza viruses that send millions of Americans back to bed every winter, is administered as a nasal spray. Approved by the FDA in June for healthy people ages 5 through 49, it triggers a buildup of antibodies in the upper respiratory...
Public health experts predict SARS may re-emerge this year, and just last week leading SARS researchers met in Geneva to discuss developing a vaccine.
If a patient were to show flu-like symptoms but had received the vaccine, health officials would be able to rule out the possibility of the flu and act more quickly on other potential diseases.