For adults, the focus is on tetanus, and flu vaccines, when they become available.
Flu vaccines will get sold every year, without investments in newer and better ones.
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For them, only injections of H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines are appropriate, since they contain inactivated or dead virus.
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They will also be ready for human use if the FDA issues an emergency authorization to start distributing swine flu vaccines.
Laxminarayan emphasized the importance of seasonal flu vaccines as a preventive measure against both illness and unnecessary prescribing and consumption of antibiotics.
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Meanwhile, swine flu vaccines are being released to GPs in south Wales whose stocks are running low of the seasonal flu vaccine.
But experts warn that flu vaccines are not 100% effective, and it is still possible to become ill despite receiving a vaccination.
These could provide a three-month head start in making seasonal flu vaccines.
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Flu vaccines are recommended annually for people ages 6 months and older.
Experts recommend flu vaccines, which have been found to be 62% effective.
The main risk may be that the purchase will mean all of the major makers of U.S. flu vaccines will be European companies.
But it reports the SFDA has announced that "more qualified enterprises which could produce swine flu vaccines" would be licensed by the end of September.
Smaller cities north of Boston have reported shortages of flu vaccines.
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Well, the people behind SafeMinds and Age of Autism believe that the preservative thimerosal, which is used in some but not all flu vaccines, causes autism.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asked employers to encourage their most vulnerable workers to get both the traditional and H1N1 flu vaccines as soon as possible.
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And flu vaccines work even less well in the elderly.
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Flu vaccines, which are made by companies including Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, and GlaxoSmithKline, are less effective at preventing influenza than childhood vaccines are at preventing disease like measles or polio.
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Conservative peer Baroness Knight of Collingtree then asked whether the government proposed to fund research into more effective flu vaccines, in the light of the recent report in medical journal the Lancet.
According to one study, if people got just five types of preventive services when they needed to -- colorectal and breast cancer screening, flu vaccines, counseling to help them quit smoking, and regular aspirin use to prevent strokes -- we could avert 100, 000 deaths each year.
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The drive- thru vaccinations have already been given this flu season in Maryland, Alabama, and Connecticut, after an earlier drive- through program pilot program in 2012 designed to test emergency preparedness for administering flu vaccines in Alabama, Georgia, Connecticut, Virginia, Arizona, Kansas and California.
To make matters worse, Fisher found that patients in high-cost areas were actually less likely to receive low-cost preventive services, such as flu and pneumonia vaccines, faced longer waits at doctor and emergency-room visits, and were less likely to have a primary-care physician.
We also do lots of vaccinations, things for travel vaccines, flu shots during the flu season.
Unlike most vaccines, flu shots are something that most of us end up getting every year.
For the most part, our strategy for preparing for pandemic flu focuses on the development of vaccines.
Spanish flu did, however, galvanise research into vaccines, which has been going on ever since.
Whether the severity of the current flu season will translate into larger investment in vaccines remains to be seen.
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And, vaccines that can prevent diseases like flu and cancer are underused.
This then populates a map showing flu prevalence geographically in real time, as well as pointing users to nearby flu resources, for example, pharmacies with vaccines.
And because the virus came up fairly late in the time frame for preparing flu shots, we had a limited number of vaccines, and we had to decide who gets the vaccines first.
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