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The Bhopal laboratory, where the samples of the dead fowls were sent for testing, confirmed bird flu a couple of days back. Following this, the authorities ordered culling of poultry at two farms ...

The NUDGE-FLU (Nationwide Utilization of Danish Government Electronic Letter System for Increasing Influenza Vaccine Uptake ... be primarily due to the large sample size. Disclosures This study ...

People at risk of exposure to avian flu on the Isle of Man have been invited to take up the offer of a flu vaccine. Manx Care and the island's public health directorate said it wanted to lower the ...

The effectiveness of annual flu vaccines varies depending on how well the vaccine matches the circulating virus. The effectiveness of vaccines ranges from 19% to 60% in any given season.

All of the children admitted with measles to Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock were unvaccinated, officials said last week. Dr. Lara Johnson, the hospital's chief medical officer, said Covenant ...

A congregation attends a service at Community Church of Seminole, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, in Seminole, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ...

Katherine Wells, Lubbock’s public health department director, said West Texas’ rural landscape is a major challenge, not just in getting to patients and transporting test samples ... supportive of ...

About one in five samples of commercial milk in the U.S. tested positive for traces of bird flu in a national survey, with a greater proportion coming from areas with infected herds, the U.S. Food and ...

Now there are growing worries about next year’s flu vaccinations. This week, the Food and Drug Administration — now with vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm — unexpectedly and ...

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