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  • Children swine flu deaths spike in US amid vaccine shortage

    Oct 30, 2009 05:25 PM PDT, AFP
    Children swine flu deaths spike in US amid vaccine shortage

    AFP - The United States will release its entire stock of children's Tamiflu antivirals, a top health official said, as the pediatric swine flu toll spiked well above the annual toll for kids from seasonal flu.

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  • Children swine flu deaths spike in US amid vaccine shortage

    Oct 30, 2009 05:25 PM PDT, AFP
    Children swine flu deaths spike in US amid vaccine shortage

    AFP - The United States will release its entire stock of children's Tamiflu antivirals, a top health official said, as the pediatric swine flu toll spiked well above the annual toll for kids from seasonal flu.

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  • Child swine flu deaths spike in US amid vaccine shortage

    Oct 30, 2009 04:00 PM PDT, AFP
    Child swine flu deaths spike in US amid vaccine shortage

    AFP - The United States released Friday its entire stock of children's Tamiflu antivirals, a top health official said, as the pediatric swine flu toll spiked well above the annual toll for kids from seasonal flu.

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  • Swine flu deaths soar, Ukraine closes schools

    Oct 30, 2009 11:19 AM PDT, AFP
    Swine flu deaths soar, Ukraine closes schools

    AFP - The number of global swine flu deaths spiked by 700 in a week, the World Health Organisation said Friday, as Ukraine closed schools and cinemas in the toughest measures taken in Europe over the virus.

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  • Ukraine closes all schools, cinemas over swine flu

    Oct 30, 2009 09:11 AM PDT, AFP
    Ukraine closes all schools, cinemas over swine flu

    AFP - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Friday ordered a three-week closure of Ukraine's schools and cinemas in the toughest measures adopted yet to combat the swine flu virus in Europe.

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  • Health experts: Kids should get seasonal flu shot

    Oct 29, 2009 05:02 PM PDT, Associated Press

    AP - Dutch scientists made a controversial suggestion Friday that children might be better off skipping the seasonal flu vaccine this year — a proposal flatly rejected by other health experts.

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  • Obama girls' vaccine: Favoritism or good example?

    Oct 29, 2009 04:11 PM PDT, Associated Press
    Obama girls' vaccine: Favoritism or good example?

    AP - With Dad a world leader and Nobel Prize winner, Malia and Sasha Obama surely could have been first in line when vaccinations began for swine flu. They weren't, the White House says. But that hasn't stopped complaints that President Barack Obama's daughters got preferential treatment.

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