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A campaign that makes seasonal flu vaccinations for hospital staff free, convenient, ubiquitous and hard to ignore succeeds fairly well in moving care providers closer to a state of “herd” immunity and protecting patients from possible … To track vaccination rates at Johns Hopkins, Bernacki’s team combined information from employee health records kept at the hospital and cross-checked them with results obtained from questionnaires and telephone interviews from a random …

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Protecting patients: JH flu-shot rates 2x national average : The …

Owensboro Medical Health System spokesman Gordon Wilkerson said the hospital and its local clinics have treated a relatively low number patients for seasonal flu . OMHS has given 3404 seasonal vaccines at its Daviess County facilities …

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A campaign that makes seasonal flu vaccinations for hospital staff free, convenient, ubiquitous and hard to ignore succeeds fairly well in moving care providers closer to a state of ‘herd’ immunity and protecting patients from possible … To track vaccination rates at Johns Hopkins, Bernacki’s team combined information from employee health records kept at the hospital and cross-checked them with results obtained from questionnaires and telephone interviews from a random …

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CANADA–A new study released yesterday from Canadian Institute for Health Information , it was found that, H1N1 sends more and younger people to hospital. … Shockingly the study also found that one in six H1N1 patients in hospital were admitted to the ICU, 10% of which need ventilation to breathe the percentage being double that of the seasonal flu . For this study analysts studied data from FluWatch and compared CIHI’s hospital statistics for the year 2007 to 2008 to the …

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Health News: Younger people affected H1N1 more than regular flu …

Today, a study out of Canada shows that this pandemic virus sent more people – and younger people in particular – to the hospital than seasonal flu . And of those, a higher percentage than usual ended up in the ICU or requiring mechanical … flu, the H1N1 virus resulted in a higher proportion of patients requiring specialized hospital services—and affected younger people more—according to a new study released today by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). …

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Canada: H1N1 Sent More To ICU Than Seasonal Flu

Normally, only about 40 to 50 seasonal flu sufferers develop encephalopathy each year, meaning the latest figure has already more than doubled in four months since the new strain of flu began spreading. Earlier in November, Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA reported several children with H1N1 related encephalitis. And last summer, CDC’s MMWR (July 23rd issue) reported on 4 pediatric patients with the novel H1N1 virus … Swine Flu Information . Swine Flu Information …

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Neurologic Manifestations of Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus Infection

Peiris at Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China compared the cell infection pattern and immune responses of pandemic H1N1 to seasonal flu as well as to highly pathogenic avian influenza strains. They found that in contrast to …

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Flu News Blog – Progress Is Slow on Moving Surplus Swine Flu …

Justin Denholm, a research fellow at the Royal Melbourne Hospital who worked on the project, said both conditions could be seen in people with seasonal flu , but were very rare. … Swine Flu Information . Swine Flu Information …

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Australia: Pregnancy And Flu

Dayton Daily News 19, because of a decrease in patients with H1N1 or seasonal flu -like symptoms, according to the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association. … See all stories on this topic · CBC.ca · Severe H1N1 patients benefit from early care. CBC.ca “In addition to vaccination, health-care providers and First Nations groups should have a low threshold for seeking treatment if they have symptoms of H1N1 … See all stories on this topic …

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A 76-year-old male patient with Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease (COAD) attended the Accident and Emergency Department of Pok Oi Hospital yesterday (January 13) for flu symptoms and was admitted for treatment . …. “There are intravenous formulations including Relenza and another one which are now being talked about as the way you should go in these resistant cases.” The standard seasonal flu vaccine will this year include a vaccine for swine flu. …

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