Final Estimates for 2009–10 Seasonal Influenza and Influenza A (H1N1) 2009...
Because the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus [2009 influenza A (H1N1)] was identified in April 2009, two separate influenza vaccines were distributed in the United States in 2009–2010: a seasonal vaccine...
View Article2010-2011 Seasonal Influenza (Flu) Vaccine Safety
Questions and answers on the safety of the 2010-2011 flu vaccine, including possible mild reactions.
View ArticleSeasonal Flu Information for Businesses and Employees
Toolkit and other materials for businesses, employers, and their employees to learn ways to prevent the flu.
View ArticleNew Study Re-examines Bacterial Vaccine Studies Conducted During 1918...
Secondary infections with bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia, were a major cause of death during the 1918 flu pandemic and may be important in modern pandemics as well.
View ArticleNIH Scientists Explore 1510 Influenza Pandemic and Lessons Learned
A new commentary by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, explores the 1510 pandemic and what we have learned since then...
View ArticleInterim Guidance on the Use of Influenza Antiviral Agents During the...
The following guidance on the use of influenza antiviral drugs for the prevention and control of influenza during the 2010-2011 season has been submitted to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...
View ArticleNIH Experts Describe Influenza Vaccines of the Future
Efforts to grow the vaccine virus in cells rather than eggs are currently under way and there is consideration of the addition to influenza vaccine of immune-stimulating adjuvants to be used in...
View ArticleSeasonal Flu and 2009 H1N1 Flu Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women,...
Because pregnant women are at increased risk for severe disease associated with influenza infection, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Advisory Committee on Immunization...
View ArticleNational Influenza Vaccination Week to be held December 5-11, 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has set aside the week of December 5-11, 2010 to observe this season's National Influenza Vaccination Week. The week-long emphasis on flu...
View ArticleA Flu Vaccine that Lasts: NIH Scientists Consider Prospects for a Universal...
The costly, time-consuming process of making, distributing and administering millions of seasonal flu vaccines would become obsolete if researchers could design a vaccine that confers decades-long...
View ArticlePresidential Proclamation--National Influenza Vaccination Week
Last year, as the world prepared for a pandemic of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, we were reminded of the severity and unpredictability of this serious disease.
View ArticleH1N1 Vaccine Safe and Induces Robust Immune Response in People with Asthma
2009 Results of NIH-supported study now available
View ArticleHHS and Walgreens Announce New Effort Aimed at Addressing Health Disparities...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that Walgreens has agreed to donate $10 million in vouchers for free flu shots to 350,000 eligible uninsured and...
View ArticlePandemic Influenza Evaluation and Capacity Review Tools
Flu surveillance, laboratory testing and inventory tools for use by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) international partners and collaborating countries.
View ArticleGuidance for the Prevention and Control of Influenza in the Peri- and...
Guidance for the Prevention and Control of Influenza in the Peri- and Postpartum Settings
View ArticleResearch Shows Single Change in H1N1 Virus Makes the Virus Bind More Easily...
The 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus continues to circulate among the human population as the predominant H1N1 subtype.
View ArticleNew Consumer-Focused Immunization Website, www.vaccines.gov
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today unveiled an innovative new website to help parents and other consumers learn about the most effective way to protect themselves and their children...
View ArticleU.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)Funds...
A contract has been awarded to develop a long-acting single-dose antiviral drug for use in the United States, the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) announced today.
View ArticleWHO Landmark Global Agreement on Flu Virus Sharing Improves Global...
After a week of negotiations continued through Friday night and into Saturday morning, an open-ended working-group meeting of Member States successfully agreed upon a framework to ensure that in a...
View ArticleFDA Approves Vaccines for the 2011-2012 Influenza Season
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it has approved the 2011-2012 influenza vaccine formulation for all six manufacturers licensed to produce and distribute influenza vaccine for...
View ArticleCDC Reports Details Influenza Prevention and Treatment for Children and Teens
Although children and teenagers rarely die from flu–related causes, many of the deaths could have been prevented if the children had been vaccinated against the flu, according to a report by the...
View ArticleNIH Scientists Find Earliest Known Evidence of 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Examination of lung tissue and other autopsy material from 68 American soldiers who died of respiratory infections in 1918 has revealed that the influenza virus that eventually killed 50 million people...
View ArticleFDA Clears First Single Use Face Mask for Children
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the Kimberly-Clark Pediatric/Child Face Mask, designed to be worn in hospitals and health care facilities to help reduce the spread of airborne...
View ArticlePriming with DNA vaccine makes avian flu vaccine work better
The immune response to an H5N1 avian influenza vaccine was greatly enhanced in healthy adults if they were first primed with a DNA vaccine expressing a gene for a key H5N1 protein, researchers say....
View ArticleCDC Issues Initial 2011-2012 Seasonal “FluView” Report: Current Activity is...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the initial “FluView” report for the U.S. 2011–2012 flu season with the message that flu activity is currently low, making this the perfect time...
View ArticleFDA Updated Communication on Use of Jet Injectors with Inactivated Influenza...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending that health care professionals use a sterile needle and syringe to administer inactivated influenza vaccines.
View ArticleThe World Health Organization (WHO) Recommends Vaccine Composition for the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Recommends Vaccine Composition for the 2011-2012 Northern Hemisphere Influenza Season
View ArticleCDC Confirms Two Human Infections with Novel Influenza Viruses
CDC has confirmed two cases of human infection with two different novel influenza A viruses in different states. Both patients have fully recovered.
View ArticleFirst U.S. Cell-based Flu Vaccine Plant Set for Dedication
The first U.S. facility to use a faster and more flexible technology to make influenza vaccine was dedicated today, as part of an initiative that could provide vaccine supplies sooner in an influenza...
View ArticleFDA Approves First Quadrivalent Vaccine to Prevent Seasonal Influenza
FluMist Quadrivalent, a vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza in people ages 2 years through 49 years, has been approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FluMist Quadrivalent is the...
View ArticleNorth American Countries Join Forces to Prepare for Pandemics
A new North American Plan for Animal and Pandemic Influenza supports a faster and more coordinated response to influenza pandemics in North America. President Barack Obama, Mexican President Felipe...
View ArticleFirst H3N2 Variant Virus Infection Reported For 2012
The first human infection with an influenza A H3N2 variant (H3N2v) virus in 2012 has been reported in a child by the state of Utah.
View ArticleClinical Trial of HHS-Supported Flu Vaccine Begins in Vietnam
Vietnam has begun a Phase I clinical trial for the first H1N1 influenza vaccine developed entirely in that country.
View ArticleHHS Support Results in International Influenza Vaccine Milestone
Thailand today became one of the first countries in the world to test an H5N1 avian, or bird, influenza vaccine in a needle-free, nasal spray formulation.
View ArticleFirst Global Estimates of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Mortality Released by CDC-Led...
A study published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases Online First provides the first global estimates of how many people died as a result of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.
View ArticleCDC Reports Cases 14-17 of H3N2v Infection; Shares Advice for Safe Fair-Going
The state of Indiana this week reported the first novel influenza virus outbreakExternal Web Site Icon associated with a fair this season. Following reports of ill swine and humans during a fair in...
View ArticleCDC Reports Cases 18-29 of H3N2v Virus Infection; Continues to Recommend...
This week CDC reports 12 additional human infections with influenza A (H3N2) variant* virus in 3 states.
View ArticleFDA Approves Vaccines for the 2012-2013 Influenza Season
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it has approved the 2012-2013 influenza (flu) vaccine formulation for all six manufacturers licensed to produce and distribute the vaccines in...
View ArticleMore H3N2v Cases Reported, Still Linked to Pig Exposure
Today, 71 additional cases of H3N2v are being reported, bringing the total number of such infections since July 2012 in the United States to 224.
View ArticleH3N2v Update: New Cases Reported, Limited Person-to-Person Transmission Detected
Today, 52 additional cases of H3N2v are being reported, bringing the total number of such infections since July 2012 in the United States to 276 across 10 states.
View ArticleCDC Reports More Cases, Hospitalizations and Nation’s First H3N2v-Associated...
Today, CDC is reporting 12 additional cases of H3N2 variant virus (H3N2v) infection, as well as the first H3N2v-associated death, which was reported by the state of Ohio.
View ArticleH1N2 Variant Virus Detected in Minnesota
The Minnesota Department of Health has reported detection of 3 infections with an influenza A H1N2 variant (“H1N2v”) virus with the pandemic M gene from the 2009 H1N1 virus.
View ArticleStatement from Assistant Secretary Nicole Lurie on FDA approval of new...
Our nation has reached a landmark in influenza vaccine history with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new seasonal flu vaccine, called Flublok, made with novel technology.
View ArticleHHS Awards Contract for Advanced Development of Novel Flu Treatment
A new drug to help address the growing problem of antiviral drug resistance and add to the tools available to fight pandemic and seasonal influenza will be developed under a contract awarded today by...
View ArticleNIH-Supported Researchers Glean Clues from H7N9 Influenza Genetic Sequences
The novel H7N9 avian influenza virus that has caused illness and death of people in China in recent weeks has characteristics known to cause severe disease in mammals, including people, but it is...
View ArticleNew Study by Chinese and CDC Experts Shows H7N9 Illness Uncommon in China
A study by CDC and Chinese public health experts published on May 8, 2013, indicates that human infections with the H7N9 virus remain very rare in China among people seeking medical care for...
View ArticleH7N9 Situation and CDC Response Update
Sporadic human cases of infection with avian influenza A (H7N9) continue to be reported in China, but the increase in case counts has fallen off from the month of April, when multiple cases were being...
View ArticleFlu in Pregnancy may Quadruple Child’s Risk for Bipolar Disorder
Pregnant mothers’ exposure to the flu was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child would develop bipolar disorder in adulthood, in a study funded by the National Institutes of...
View ArticleCDC Health Advisory: Variant Influenza Virus (H3N2v) Infections
This Health Alert Network Health Advisory provides an update on H3N2 variant virus (or “H3N2v”) activity and summarizes CDC’s updated H3N2v case definitions and recommendations for H3N2v surveillance...
View ArticleHHS Boosts National Capacity to Produce Pandemic Flu Vaccine
To boost the nation’s ability to manufacture influenza vaccine quickly in a pandemic, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today established a fill and finish manufacturing network, which...
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