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Despite the distraction of mid-terms and the widespread publicity concerning swine flu vaccine's possible side effects, almost 5000 people received the vaccine early this week in the UHS three-day immunization program.
Priority Group. U.S. Government officials, already plagued by a succession of crises in the Administration's effort to inoculate 145 million Americans before year's end, promptly insisted that there was no link between the deaths and the vaccine. They pointed out that the average age of these...
Within hours after news of the initial deaths, at least nine states closed flu-shot clinics. Meanwhile, samples of vaccine used in Pittsburgh-from a lot labeled 913339A, produced by Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co., one of four manufacturers-were rushed to the Food and Drug Administration's...
Blumberg, 51, of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research, identified a blood-carried viral particle, "Australia antigen," associated with a debilitating liver disease, hepatitis B. His biomedical detective work, involving an aborigine's blood, not only led to a method of testing potential blood donors for hepatitis but...
The federal program is providing two types of vaccine: monovalent, which offers protection only against swine flu, and bivalent, which also contains vaccine against last year's prevailing A/Victoria influenza strain. Because the virus used in producing the vaccine is cultured in eggs, the shots should not be taken...