'Tis the season for seasonal flu shots
It's time to roll up your sleeve.
We're not talking about swine flu this time, just the plain-old, run-of-the-mill seasonal flu, a killer in its own right of 36,000 Americans each year. Several major manufacturers of seasonal flu vaccine have announced over the last two days that they have started shipping doses to distributors, earlier than usual. Vaccine could be in the hands of health care providers as early as next week.
The manufacturer of Flu-Mist -- Gaitherburg-based MedImmune -- says it hopes that by getting their nasal spray vaccine into doctors' offices over the summer, physicians will be able to administer it to kids at back-to-school check-ups and more well visits than if they waited until later in the fall.
The seasonal flu vaccine will provide no protection from swine flu. Here's hoping it offers protection from seasonal flu. One early report suggests that one of the strains in the vaccine may not match up to the one that is circulating in the Southern Hemisphere.
Hundreds of millions of doses of swine flu vaccine -- which will be entirely separate from the seasonal flu vaccine -- are expected to be available come fall. Vaccinating that many people will be a major undertaking as officials try to keep a global pandemic from becoming a global crisis.
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Comments
The blog articles all push the mainstream party line. It was pretty damn obvious the swine flu was not ever a pandemic, that the whole thing was a money making cheat, and that swine flu and regular flu statistics were and are completely flawed, not to mention the 1970s swine flu vaccine that killed a thousand people.
Pharma vaccine making companies are criminals. This blog sucks.
Posted by: yurmomdotcom | April 1, 2010 1:34 AM