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Published 11/06/2009 by MedIndia


Vaccination Helps Guard Against Swine Flu

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The World Health Organisation has cautioned people to continue to protect themselves against swine flu and vaccination may greatly help in this exercise.

"At the WHO we remain quite concerned about the pattern we are...

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"At the WHO we remain quite concerned about the pattern we are seeing, particularly because a sizeable number of people do develop serious complications and death" said Keiji Fukuda...
Vaccination Helps Guard Against Swine Flu [MedIndia - 11/06/2009]
"Again, we are seeing most of this develop in people who are younger than 65 years, a picture which is different from seasonal influenza" he explained
Vaccination Helps Guard Against Swine Flu [MedIndia - 11/06/2009]
"WHO believes that these vaccines are very useful against the pandemic virus" Fukuda said in a telephone...
Vaccination Helps Guard Against Swine Flu [MedIndia - 11/06/2009]

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