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Young children are particularly susceptible to flu-related complications: that is why a flu shot is recommended for children aged six months through eighteen years. With nearly twenty-thousand children under five hospitalized each year, parents and caregivers need to know about the dangers of influenza and the benefits of vaccination. A Production of the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
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The H5N1 influenza virus is decimating bird flocks in Asia and poses a serious threat of a human pandemic. Results of clinical trials of human vaccine, experiments with other vaccine production methods, alternative drug treatments and the ability of the pharmaceutical industry to mass produce vaccines are covered.
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"When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people....
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