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Please enjoy the information contained in this edition of Frontier Focus. Please be sure to share it with your members, colleagues, providers and office billing staff. Thank you for your continued efforts to broadcast Medicare ….. CMS encourages health care providers to use each office visit as an opportunity to talk with Medicare your patients about the importance of getting a seasonal flu shot. And remember, it is also important to immunize yourself and your staff. …

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Nearly all the patients who die from the seasonal flu are over 65. With the swine flu, 24% of the deaths are in patients under age 25, and something like 88% in patients under 65. Complete reversal of ages affected. … Swine flu has recently caused a buzz because 1) it is new and 2) health officials are afraid that it may mutate into something that is stronger, more resilient, and therefore may kill a bunch of people before they can develop a vaccine/ treatment for it. …

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How many people die every year from the regular flu as opposed to …

The H1N1 virus should be included in the 2010-2011 flu season — northern hemisphere — vaccine, World Health Organization officials in Switzerland said. WHO officials recommended viruses for influenza vaccines for next year’s influenza … “But if it gives us enough information that would be helpful in the next steps toward development of a vaccine, then it’s a successful trial.” “The Thai study is already a winner in that researchers now have a population of patients …

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WHO: Add H1N1 to seasonal flu vaccine — Signs of the Times News

TORONTO — H1N1 influenza landed a higher proportion of Canadians in ICUs and on ventilators, and at a much younger age on average, than seasonal flu does in a typical year, says a report asses. … The study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information compared hospitalization statistics for H1N1 patients between April and December to data for patients with regular flu during the 2007-2008 season. “Initially there were clinical perceptions of the patients: they seemed …

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Summerside The Journal Pioneer: News | H1N1 sent higher proportion …

The above comments of a General Practitioner in Mississippi raise concerns that the increasing severity in recent flu patients in Region 4 is widespread. Although this practitioner thinks his patients have seasonal flu , there have been …

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More Severe H1N1 Increases In Mississippi | RevolutionRadio.org

He said that the office provided vaccinations against seasonal flu , swine flu, and hepatitis in the mornings and evenings as an implementation to decisions issued by the Kuwaiti Health Ministry, and stressed that the embassy was …. Sinuiju, North Pyongan Province has begun to provide flu treatment from December 25, 2009. Doctors are offering tablets to those who had a contact with the H1N1 flu patients while giving injection to or prescribing medicine for the patients . …

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Kuwait Embassy in Egypt following up swine flu developments …

Officials expect the H1N1 strain to spike also due to increased exposure to germs from the seasonal flu . The North Country HealthCare Clinic already has experienced an increased amount of patients this flu season. The clinic is averaging 50 to 60 patients … The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has more information about the eligibility requirements for the H1N1 vaccine available on the agency’s Web site www.cdc.gov. In an article that appears on the North …

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Shortage of Influenza and H1N1 Vaccinations as Peak | Western …

Let’s see, the health agencies used to fear-monger that half a million people died each and every year without exception from “seasonal” influenza, granted only in order to scare people into getting the seasonal flu shot. …. that the patients fared worse than in areas where there were less physicians, consequently being subjected to less medical ” treatment “, particularly less “specialized” treatment , as a result of which they fared better with less medical attention. …

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Flu and Vaccine Tidbits: Hocus Pocus Bogus Circus

For a long time, WHO fear mongered that 500000 people per year died from seasonal flu (“so get your flu shot”). Then, when H1N1 failed to produce, they started adjusting the figure to a range of from 250000 to 500000. …. that the patients fared worse than in areas where there were less physicians, consequently being subjected to less medical ” treatment “, particularly less “specialized” treatment , as a result of which they fared better with less medical attention. …

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Flu and Vaccine Tidbits: Is WHO on Drugs or just STUPID?

ModernMedicineImmunocompromised Patients Need Aggressive Flu Treatment Authors recommend …ModernMedicine29 (HealthDay News) — In patients with hematologic malignancies who develop seasonal or H1N1 influenza, aggressive treatment may be …

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Immunocompromised Patients Need Aggressive Flu Treatment Authors …