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Flu roundup cont'd

ddobbs | October 5, 2009

Lots of flu news out there. Here's my short list for the day: Helen Branswell reports that WHO is unpersuaded by the unpublished paper showing seasonal flu vaccine may raise chance of getting swine flu. (Anomalies are usually anomalies.) Canada has been thrown into quite a bit of confusion by this report, with some provinces holding off on seasonal flu vaccines. Meanwhile, an OB notes an extraordinary death toll of H5N1 among pregnant women. Greg Laden has an extremely short post suggesting how difficult these two bits of news are when you (or your wife) are actually pregnant. The gist: The…

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