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The first effective anti-AIDS vaccine could come into use by 1990 at the earliest, WHO officials believe. The $1.5 billion a year that the Geneva-based United Nations agency will need by then to fight the disease will be three times the organization's current annual budget. Put another...
The main vaccine protects the body from three flu strains--A/Mississippi, found in 1985, A/Chile, found in 1983, and a newly-identified virus, B/Ann Arbor. Another shot guards against a flu strain known as A/Taiwan, identified in Asia last January.
More than 350 Massachusetts communities have in the last three months received 250,000 state-funded doses of the main flu vaccine, intended mainly for senior citizens and people with chronic health problems.
Health officials have known of the new viral strain (actually a mutation of Type A influenza strains predominant in the U.S. in the 1950s) only since June, when the first cases were confirmed in Taiwan. Pharmaceutical companies, which had already manufactured a single-shot flu vaccine that is effective against...
Unfortunately, many of those in need of protection do not get vaccinated. Of the people who are vulnerable to complications from influenza because of other health problems, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates, only one in five will actually bother to get shots. The fact that two kinds of...