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Posted November 27, 2003:

November 26, 2003 - Alta. unveils plan for next influenza pandemic - www.ctv.ca - "The Alberta government has issued a dire health warning about the flu. They say when the next pandemic hits, it will make last spring's SARS outbreak look like 'the sniffles.'"

November 27, 2003 - SARS vaccine search makes a key advance - www.boston.com - "Drugs to treat SARS and even a vaccine to block the lethal respiratory disease could be available in just a few years with the discovery of the molecular mechanism that allows the virus to invade human cells, an advance achieved with unprecedented speed."

November 27, 2003 - Few willing to pay through the nose for FluMist - Akron Beacon Journal

November 27, 2003 - Cleaning Today's Commercial Produce Imperative To Health - The Ponca City News

November 27, 2003 - Study: First Caesarean increases risk - www.boston.com - "Women who have their first baby by Caesarean section are at significantly higher risk of losing their next baby to an unexplained stillbirth before going into labor, according to a new study...An expert not associated with the study, published in The Lancet medical journal, said the research is important because it suggests hospitals that tend to do a lot of Caesareans might need to consider strategies to reduce them."

 

November 27, 2003 - Cuba develops 'cheap' Hib vaccine - Cuban scientists have given details of a new vaccine against a bacterium which causes meningitis and pneumonia. - BBC

 

November 27, 2003 - Officials reject flu risk claims - Claims that the UK may be unprepared if this year's flu season turns into "the big one" have been dismissed by the Department of Health.  - BBC

 

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November 27, 2003 - Thousands sickened in early, severe flu season - Especially virulent strain of virus is cropping up - CNN - "'One of the reported deaths from flu this year was of a child with symptoms that were not consistent with the flu,' said Dr. Ned Calonge, Colorado's chief medical officer...'The loss of this child is tragic, but parents need to know this is a very unusual case, and that there have not been any similar cases in Colorado or Texas, where flu activity has been the worst to date in the United States this year," he said in a statement on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Web site.'"

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