MedPage Today Flu & URI

• Kids' Flu Shots Stop Community Transmission March 10, 2010
  Vaccinating healthy kids effectively protects the entire community against flu, a prospective randomized trial affirmed. […]
• AAAAI: Egg Allergy No Bar to Flu Shot February 28, 2010
  NEW ORLEANS -- Most children with egg protein allergies who received influenza vaccinations had no adverse reactions, researchers said here. […]
• CDC Committee Urges Expanded Flu Vaccination February 26, 2010
  All people over the age of 6 months should get an annual influenza vaccination, a CDC committee said. […]
• WHO Says Add H1N1 to Next Season's Trivalent Vaccine February 18, 2010
  The trivalent influenza vaccine for the 2010-2011 flu season in the Northern Hemisphere should include the pandemic H1N1 strain, the World Health Organization recommended. […]
• Scant Support for Flu Vaccines in Older Patients February 17, 2010
  The practice of targeting influenza vaccine to older people has only poor-quality supporting evidence that fails to show a clear benefit or harm, authors of a systematic review concluded. […]
• Standard Antiviral Dose Appears Okay for Severe H1N1 February 16, 2010
  Critically ill patients with pandemic H1N1 influenza probably do not need a higher dose of oseltamivir (Tamiflu), researchers found. […]
• Rapid Tests Fail at Ruling Out H1N1 in Kids February 14, 2010
  Rapid influenza tests have poor sensitivity for detecting pandemic H1N1 flu in children, two studies showed. […]