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New In Virus Vaccination

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Until now the virus vaccine has not been found. Pandemic influenza has recently spread throughout the world, the victims who died increased sharply, clearly worrying for anyone, including the World Health Organization. Several discoveries of new products for virus vaccines, such as the three previously approved (CELVAPAN, of Baxter; Focetria, Novartis, and GSK Pandemrix) has been assessed through the emergency procedures to prevent a pandemic flu.

Vaccines are bought by Spanish health authorities Focetria, Pandemrix and Panenza. The latter, by the company Sanofi Pasteur, has not been approved centrally for the whole of Europe, but by the Spanish Agency for Drugs and Health Products. It was intended to immunize pregnant women. (more…)

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Spain has the second death by mutation of the influenza virus A

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

A man aged 31 has died in Andalusia by complications from a mutation of the influenza virus A, ‘D222G’, becoming the second death in Spain by this alteration of the H1N1 virus first detected in Norway, as reports in its latest weekly report from the National Epidemiological Surveillance Network of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III.

This patient, who had no medical history, eventually dying of multiple organ failure after several complications, reports the monitoring system sentinel physicians, which however does not specify the time of death. However, sources with the Ministry of Health and Social Policy, consulted by Europa Press, claim that this mutation is “expected” behavior according to each year have the flu virus. (more…)

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Hepatitis B, go for screening!

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

In France, nearly 300 000 people are infected with hepatitis B and there are 500 new cases per year. But more than half of patients do not discover their status at the stage of complications. How to tell if you’re at risk?

Transmissible and silent infection with hepatitis B (HBV) is still largely under diagnosed and inadequately treated. An intolerable situation when we know that effective treatments exist.

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Hepatitis: a threat that cannot be ignored

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

While the High Authority of Health calls for the generalization of the proposed routine testing for HIV / AIDS, Hepatitis SOS (Association of patients with a chronic liver disease) is a lack of consideration of all stakeholders in the system Health on the issue of screening for viral hepatitis.

According to the Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin of May 19, 2009 (Institute of Health Surveillance) over 500 000 people are carriers of chronic viral hepatitis (232 hepatitis C 000, 281 000 hepatitis B) and nearly 50% do not know and not yet detected. More than 250 000 people living in France with a virus that can potentially destroy their livers.

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