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The Flu Shot Didn't Really Work On..

CBC | Posted 04.24.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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The Fraser Health Authority is working to improve the flu shot’s effectiveness for seniors with a targeted vaccine program. According to...

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How The Flu Shot Changes With Age

CBC | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Living
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Our immune systems respond differently to flu vaccines as we age, a small U.S. study suggests. The body's antibodies are often compared t...

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Does The Flu Vaccine Actually Work?

CP | Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Living
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TORONTO - Canadians who got a flu shot this year may have cut in half their risk of getting sick enough from flu to require medical care, new data sug...

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Where Can I Get A Free Flu Shot?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 01.10.2013 | Canada Living
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Doctors are urging people get the flu shot as cases of the winter illness spike across Canada, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. The...

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Flu Shot Requirement Suspended In B.C.

CP | Terri Theodore, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.03.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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VANCOUVER - The B.C. government has temporarily backed away from a controversial plan to force thousands of provincial health workers to get a flu sho...

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5 Things You Need To Know About The Flu Shot

CBC | Posted 12.22.2012 | Canada Living
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As flu vaccination campaigns get underway this flu season, provincial and territorial health ministers are promoting flu shots. "By getti...

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Are Flu Vaccines Effective?

CP | Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.15.2012 | Canada Living
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Flu vaccine is not as effective as public health messaging traditionally has claimed, says a new report that suggests overselling of flu shots is gett...

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A Vaccine To End All Flu Shots?

CBC | Posted 10.23.2012 | Canada Living
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Researchers in Canada and the U.S. are testing a vaccine that could protect people from influenza for their entire lives, eliminating the need for ann...

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The Threat of Mass Naivete

Neil Seeman | Posted 01.15.2012 | Canada
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Among the many global trends are the two Big Nasty Elephants of modernity -- terrorism and pandemic spread. These two challenges to mankind share a common set of unassailable facts: they will both kill on a wide scale; and, for reasons I do not understand, the public is naïve as to the inevitability of such events.

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