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Monthly Archive April, 2005

Flu Vaccinations

By Jeffry Fawcett, April 19, 2005 in the Editorials blog

Last week, Meridian Bioscience of Cincinatti mistakenly shipped flu test kits that contained a strain of the virus that got public health agencies worried. “Deadly virus” the mainstream media called it.

This strain of flu is from 1957. It’s deadly because our immune systems haven’t been exposed to it since then. Without immunity, the World Health Organization worried that the virus could wreak havoc once again. [Read more…]