Flu Vaccine News Items

CDC: Flu Vaccine Arriving, Get Yours ASAP -  ASAP?!??

"It may still be late summer, but this year's flu vaccine already is arriving -- and the CDC wants you to get yours right away."

FluMist to expand to high schools; one dose covers flu, H1N1
"Alachua County School District spokeswoman Jackie Johnson said permission slips required to participate in the free vaccine program will be sent home with students during the first week of school."

Emergent BioSolutions forms joint venture to develop pandemic flu vaccine

WSJ

Mumbai

LATimes - Microneedles

"Best websites for H1N1 flu shot safety information"

In Germany

DoD news items

Aetna Monthly Health Watch: August is National Immunization Month

PositiveID News

PositiveID PR

PositiveID Corporation's Identity Security Business Achieves Record Billings and Subscriber Growth in June

A Chip Off the Old Block: Update on Implanted Microchips

"Meanwhile, the company hopes to use similar technology to create a non-implantable test kit that could quickly identify various flu strains. Silverman says the company is already in phase 2 development. It hopes to complete the prototype before the next flu season."

Might I ask, why would I need this?!  Don't doctors have enough diagnostic tools available to them without using this particular 'test kit'?  Using similar technology? Huh?