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Friday, February 19, 2010
WHO: Combine H1N1, Regular Flu Vaccines
From Time Magazine:
(LONDON) — The World Health Organization is recommending that swine flu be added to regular flu vaccines next season.
The swine flu pandemic virus, or H1N1, emerged too late last year to be added to the regular flu vaccine, and a separate vaccine was needed.
For this year's northern hemisphere flu season, however, the two vaccines should be combined, WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday after the agency met this week to decide which strains should be recommended to drug makers for vaccines.
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