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Hoping to get immunized against a possible sniffling, head-aching, won't go away winter flu? Good luck, say local health care officials, who have lately been so inundated with requests that they've been suffering shortages of the vaccine and have been forced to order additional supplies from manufacturers...
Demand for the vaccine has increased by nearly 300 percent this year at University Health Services (UHS) and at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), according to UHS Director Dr. David S. Rosenthal '59 and Nancy S. Bryant, head unit nurse at the MGH medical walk-in clinic. Cambridge Hospital and...
But why such an increased demand? "For a long time many people were not open to getting a vaccine--especially a flu vaccine--because they thought they could get the flu from it," suggests McCormack. "Finally, people are becoming more responsive to getting the vaccine."
This is also the first year that Medicare, the federal program which provides funds for elderly patients, has provided the vaccine free to those elderly people at greatest risk.
"The next step is to understand the parasite genes and to genetically engineer malaria parasites in order to prevent it from causing disease, as in the influenza vaccine," Wirth said.