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- Local health officials to conduct drills (Nevada Daily Mail)
Dec 20, 2008 - Local health officials are preparing for tests next spring that will indicate whether Bourbon County is ready for a possible flu pandemic or other health emergency. - With H1N1 resistance, CDC changes advice on flu drugs (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy)
Dec 19, 2008 - Dec 19, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Increased resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu), the leading influenza drug, has prompted federal health officials to change their advice about flu treatment, saying clinicians for now should consider using zanamivir (Relenza) or a combination of two drugs for patients suspected of having influenza A. - GSK Ready to Supply RELENZA(R) to Meet New CDC Interim Recommendations this Flu Season (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Dec 19, 2008 - GlaxoSmithKline is prepared to respond to public health needs for RELENZA® Inhalation Powder this flu season following a Health Alert Advisory issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . - News From 91.3 KUWS Plan in place for local flu pandemic (BusinessNorth)
Dec 19, 2008 - You can never be completely ready for a pandemic but after seven years of planning, local governments say they have firm plans in place in case the avian flu strikes. Mike Simonson reports. - HHS Releases Guidance For Use And Stockpiling Of Antiviral Drugs For Pandemic Influenza (Medical News Today)
Dec 19, 2008 - Health care workers and emergency services personnel who could have direct contact with individuals who are ill during an influenza pandemic should be protected with antiviral drugs throughout the pandemic, even before these workers are exposed or become ill themselves, according to guidance released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. - India seals part of Bangla border over bird flu fears (Gulf Times)
Dec 18, 2008 - KOLKATA: India sealed part of its border with Bangladesh yesterday amid fears the latest outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus had spread to new areas, officials said. - Baxter Receives EMEA Positive Opinion for CELVAPAN, The First Cell Culture-Based Pandemic Flu Vaccine (Centre Daily Times)
Dec 18, 2008 - Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has issued a positive opinion for the marketing authorization of CELVAPAN, the first cell culture-based H5N1 (avian flu) pandemic vaccine, in the European Union. - European agency endorses Baxter's bird flu vaccine (Chicago Tribune)
Dec 18, 2008 - Baxter International Inc.'s vaccine to combat the bird flu today won an endorsement from European health officials. - Commissioners sign agreement with public health (The Fayette Citizen)
Dec 18, 2008 - Coweta County commissioners Dec. 11 signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Georgia Division of Public Health (DPH) District 4 to address aspects of the county’s participation to facilitate the planning, plan evaluation and future exercises relating to pandemic influenza. While not present in the United States, the H5N1 strain of influenza, commonly referred to as avian flu, has been slowly ... - UPDATE 1-EU backs Sanofi 'micro' flu shot, Baxter pandemic (The Forex Market)
Dec 18, 2008 - LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - European regulators on Thursday endorsed the first of a new kind of "micro" vaccine against seasonal flu from Sanofi-Aventis and a pandemic flu shot from Baxter International.