NEWS UPDATE – 1- 6 August 2012 CDC preparing vaccine for new swine flu Mon, 06 Aug 2012 Only 29 human cases of a new strain of "swine" flu have been identified in two years, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is making sure it's prepared should the H3N2 strain become more widespread. Vacunación contra gripe empezará en marzo Mon, 06 Aug 2012 Desde el próximo año, el esquema para administrar la vacuna trivalente (que inmuniza contra el virus de las gripes AH1N1, H2N3 y la influenza B) se administrará desde marzo hasta mayo en todos los centros de salud, informó el ministerio del área. Was MedImmune worth $15.6 billion? Mon, 06 Aug 2012 MedImmune was first to market with a swine flu vaccine in 2009. This year, it won approval for the first intranasal flu vaccine that contains four strains of the disease. Most vaccines contain three. Guidelines in disrepute: a case study of influenza vaccination of healthcare workers Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:48:15 GMT| Practice guidelines are an important support tool for health behaviour change, but effective implementation of guidelines can be difficult and the gaps between guidelines and practice may be intractable. This paper examines a neglected but important area; namely, the reasons why problems may develop in the implementation and uptake of practice guidelines. We explore the existence of gaps in the translation of evidence into practice-based guidelines for health promotion. Fortnightly influenza surveillance overview - ECDC surveillance report Fri, 03 Aug 2012 Grippe: Vaccin par spray nasal, chaque année, pour les enfants britanniques Thu, 02 Aug 2012 Les enfants britanniques pourraient se voir proposer dès 2014 –via leurs parents- le vaccin antigrippe chaque année, par spray nasal, si l’on en croit ce rapport d’experts indépendants, qui appelle le gouvernement britannique à proposer à tous les enfants âgés de 2 à 17 à 17 ans, la vaccination antigrippale annuelle.