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Below are all news stories entered in the past 30 days.
FDA clears CSL's vaccine-finishing facility in US (Tuesday, August 18, 2009)
Aug 18, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a vaccine filling and packaging facility in Illinois owned by CSL Biotherapies, one of the five companies under contract to make novel H1N1 vaccines for the United States, the company announced.
Officials lower expectations for size of first novel flu vaccine deliveries (Friday, August 14, 2009)
Aug 14, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – Federal officials today during a pandemic H1N1 planning update dialed back the number of novel flu vaccine doses they expect in October from 120 million to 45 million, listing several reasons for the smaller projection.
Osteoporosis Drugs Kill Swine Flu Virus: Research (Friday, August 14, 2009)
August 14, 2009 (Reuters) - Two existing drugs used to treat osteoporosis may be effective in killing influenza viruses, including the new H1N1 swine flu and the H5N1 bird flu viruses, researchers in Hong Kong have found.
State adopts emergency rules to expand pool of flu vaccine administrators (Wednesday, August 12, 2009)
Boston (State House News Service) — Faced with budget cutbacks at the local level and the need to vaccinate 3 million Bay State residents against the H1N1 flu virus, state public health officials on Wednesday signed off on emergency rules allowing dentists, pharmacists and paramedics to administer the vaccine.
IOM hears diverse findings on PPE for flu (Wednesday, August 12, 2009)
Aug 12, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – A task force of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), charged with making recommendations about how to protect healthcare workers against novel H1N1 influenza, today heard a variety of evidence that respirators and masks can shield healthcare workers (HCWs) and others from getting respiratory illnesses.
States to designate providers to give H1N1 vaccines (Monday, August 10, 2009)
Aug 10, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – State health departments will decide which providers will administer the pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine this fall, and a single company will be the distributor for all the doses, it was announced today.
Monitoring of swine flu shapes battle plans for fall (Sunday, August 09, 2009)
August 9, 2009 (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) -- Quietly, hospitals have formed H1N1 committees and state and local health officials have reviewed their pandemic plans to prepare for the possible return of swine flu this fall.
CDC advises against closing schools during H1N1 outbreaks (Friday, August 07, 2009)
Aug 7, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – Federal officials recommended today that schools should not close down during novel H1N1 influenza outbreaks, though they emphasized that the advice is a guideline and that decisions should be made based on local conditions.
CDC shortens stay at home for those with flu symptoms (Thursday, August 06, 2009)
Aug 6, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – In a revision of its advice for how long those who are sick with the novel H1N1 virus should stay away from others, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday shortened the time period, which may reduce some of the pandemic's absence burden on businesses and schools.
Seasonal flu vaccine shipping early, demand up (Thursday, August 06, 2009)
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The swine flu pandemic is spurring makers of seasonal flu vaccines to ship them to the U.S. market well ahead of schedule, and supplies are tightening as distributors and others snap up vaccine vials.
Safety of pandemic vaccines (Thursday, August 06, 2009)
6 AUGUST 2009 | GENEVA -- WHO is aware of some media reports that have expressed concern about the safety of vaccines for pandemic influenza. The public needs to be reassured that regulatory procedures in place for the licensing of pandemic vaccines, including procedures for expediting regulatory approval, are rigorous and do not compromise safety or quality controls.
Schools prep for swine flu (Wednesday, August 05, 2009)
WAUSAU (WAOW) --In a few weeks, kids will be back in school. That's why districts in the area are preparing for swine flu.
Review finds parallels between 1957 and 2009 pandemics (Wednesday, August 05, 2009)
Aug 5, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – Though infectious disease experts say it is impossible to predict how severe the next wave of the novel H1N1 pandemic will be, experts from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) observe that it so far resembles the 1957-58 influenza pandemic in several ways. They report that the earlier pandemic caused minimal disruptions, in part because public health officials didn't close schools, cancel public events, or impose travel restrictions.
Girl hospitalized for suspected case of bird flu (Friday, July 31, 2009)
July 31, 2009 (Jakarta Post) -- A 17-year-old girl was admitted Friday to the Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital in Makassar with what is suspected to be an H5N1 infection.
Flu Vaccine Panel Creates Priority List (Thursday, July 30, 2009)
July 30, 2009 (Washington Post) -- A complicated list of who should get pandemic flu vaccine in the fall is now set. When the vaccine starts arriving in September, first in line will be pregnant women; the caretakers of infants; children and young adults; older people with chronic illness; and health-care workers.
Packaging, not yield, may be problem for nasal-spray H1N1 vaccine (Thursday, July 30, 2009)
Jul 30, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – While most vaccine manufacturers have reaped below-average crops of H1N1 influenza vaccine virus from the eggs in which they're grown, MedImmune Inc. has a different problem: high virus yields, but a potential shortage of the devices used to spray the vaccine into the nose.
CDC advisors to weigh who should receive H1N1 vaccine (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)
Jul 28, 2009 (CIDRAP News) – The immunization advisory group for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) meets tomorrow in an emergency session to discuss which groups should be targeted to receive the pandemic H1N1 vaccine and whether some should have priority.
Pregnancy likely to be swine flu shot priority (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)
ATLANTA (AP) — Swine flu has been hitting pregnant women unusually hard, so they are likely to be among the first group advised to get a new swine flu shot this fall.
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