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  1. FDA Approves Vaccines for the 2010-2011 Influenza Season - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that it has approved vaccines for the 2010-2011 influenza season in the United States.
  2. Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2010 - This report updates the 2009 recommendations by CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding the use of influenza vaccine for the prevention and control of influenza.
  3. NIAID Grantees Use New Skin Patches to Deliver Flu Vaccine in Mice - For many years, researchers have been working to find a way to deliver flu vaccine – whose components are much larger than those of nicotine and hormones – using a transdermal (across the skin) patch.
  4. NIH Scientists Advance Universal Flu Vaccine - A universal influenza vaccine - so-called because it could potentially provide protection from all flu strains for decades - may become a reality because of research led by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
  5. H1N1 Influenza Public Health Emergency Determination to Expire on June 23 - H1N1 Influenza Public Health Emergency Determination to Expire on June 23
  6. Advance Notice for Termination of the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Medical Products and Devices - Per the FDA-issued advance notice letters listed below, the declaration of Public Health Emergency determination for 2009 H1N1 Influenza expires on June 23, 2010.
  7. New CDC Test to Detect Human Infections with the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus Authorized for Use by FDA - A test developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose human infections with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus (formerly known as swine flu or pandemic H1N1 flu) was authorized for use today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
  8. WHO Updates International H1N1 Flu Situation - As of 13 June, worldwide more than 214 countries and overseas territories or communities have reported laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009, including over 18172 deaths.
  9. FDA Warns About Fraudulent Tamiflu - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned consumers about a potentially harmful product represented as Generic Tamiflu sold over the Internet. FDA tests revealed that the fraudulent product does not contain Tamiflu’s active ingredient, oseltamivir, but cloxacillin, an ingredient in the same class of antibiotics as penicillin.
  10. CDC issues 2009 H1N1 Pandemic: Summary Highlights, April 2009-April 2010 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document that summarizes key events of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and CDC's response activities.
  11. NIH-Funded Scientists Find 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Protects Mice from 1918 Influenza Virus - Mice injected with a 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine and then exposed to high levels of the virus responsible for the 1918 influenza pandemic do not get sick or die, report scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
  12. WHO Director-General Statement on Continuation of Pandemic Disease - A global update was provided to the Committee on the pandemic situation, including a particular focus on developments in Africa and the Southern Hemisphere.
  13. Preliminary Results: Surveillance for Guillain-Barre Syndrome After Receipt of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine --- United States, 2009--2010 - Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an uncommon peripheral neuropathy causing paralysis and in severe cases respiratory failure and death.