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CDC: Swine flu vaccine safe; no big problems seen - 11/30/09
ATLANTA - There's no evidence that the swine flu vaccine is causing any serious side effects, U.S. health officials said Wednesday, in their first report on the safety of the new vaccine. Since vaccinations began in early October, the government has been tracking the safety of the swine flu vaccine. By mid-November, about 22 million Americans had gotten the vaccine and there were about 3,200 reports of possible side effects, the vast majority for minor things like soreness or swelling from the shot. Read the full article.

WHO says Tamiflu still works against swine flu - 11/30/09
GENEVA - The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency's assessment of the disease. It says Tamiflu remains highly effective against the vast majority of H1N1 cases. Read the full article.

Staff at WHO headquarters get H1N1 flu shots - 11/30/09
GENEVA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation, which has been stressing the safety and importance of H1N1 shots, on Monday had its own staff vaccinated against the pandemic virus. Employees wanting the swine flu jabs were taken from the WHO's Geneva headquarters to a Swiss army barracks as part of Switzerland's national vaccination plan against swine flu, WHO spokeswoman Kristen Kelleher told Reuters. Read the full article.

Employers play Dr. Mom to limit swine flu impact - 11/30/09
Big businesses are spending serious time and money trying to limit the swine flu pandemic's impact on operations, from bankrolling video on good hygiene to training employees to cover for co-workers with critical jobs. Companies from health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. to beverage can maker Ball Corp. are arranging for employees with flu symptoms or sick family members to work from home where possible, holding fewer in-person meetings, even discouraging handshakes. And hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes and tissues are at the ready everywhere as employers make keeping workers healthy their first line of defense. Read the full article.

Swine flu ‘best tackled with vaccinations’ - 11/23/09
Vaccination is the most effective way of tackling swine flu, a health official has said. Dr Roland Salmon, director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre at the National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS), urged people to get vaccinated after it emerged five patients at a hospital in Cardiff have been diagnosed with a strain resistant to antiviral drug Tamiflu. Read the full article.

CDC: 'Beginning To See Some Declines In Swine Flu' -11/23/09
"The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the United States, health experts said on Friday. But they stressed that influenza, especially a pandemic, could hit several peaks in a single season. They said weeks or months more of disease could be expected. 'We are beginning to see some declines in flu activity around the country but there is still a lot of influenza,' the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Dr. Anne Schuchat told a news conference." Read the full article.

Avoiding H1N1 While Traveling - 11/23/09
(CBS) Every holiday season, millions of Americans travel through the nation's airports, seaports, and train stations to spend time with loved ones.

Special holiday get-togethers -- and traveling itself -- bring people close together, but also provide an ideal way for illness to spread. To help travelers avoid the H1N1 flu this holiday season, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched its largest-ever public awareness campaign about staying healthy while traveling in general, and steering clear of H1N1 and seasonal flu, in particular. Read the full article.

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