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Preparing for a pandemic that never came ended up setting off another − how an accidental virus release triggered 1977’s ‘Russian flu’
By September 1976, New York State Health Department workers were unloading cartons of swine flu vaccine for distribution. AP Photo/Jim McKnight But that wasn’t the end of the story. As an ...
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Preparing for a pandemic that never came ended up setting off another − how an accidental virus release triggered 1977’s ‘Russian flu’
Fears of a new H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 1976 in the United States had prompted a worldwide surge in research on H1N1 viruses and vaccines. An accidental release of one of these stored viruses ...
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First US human death from bird flu is more serious than you may think
Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human ...
‘We want Carter!’ Looking back on Jimmy Carter’s visits to Central New York
Former president Jimmy Carter made three visitis to the area. Once as a presidential candidate, once as a college speaker, ...
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‘We just dismiss people like RFK Jr.’: Infectious disease expert on how — and how not — to rebuild trust
I’m an example of this. In 1976, I was one of the people at the Minnesota Department of Health that first flagged Guillain-Barré syndrome in swine flu vaccine recipients. We brought that issue ...
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Swine Flu News
Swine Flu' Strain Has Passed from Humans to Swine Nearly 400 Times Since 2009 July 27, 2023 — A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic -- pdm09 -- shows ...
HHS invests nearly $600 million in Moderna’s bird flu vaccine development
The US Department of Health and Human Services will award $590 million to Moderna to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu, the pharmaceutical company announced Friday.