How clean do you think your home is? A 2008 study by the University of Virginia confirmed that out of the top 10 places people touch most often in their home, including, the salt and pepper shakers held 41% worth of the home’s viruses. This is just one example of germ-y places in your home.
Germs and bacteria thrive in some places you wouldn’t expect throughout your home. Web MD helps you learn about those places and how to protect you and your family from those germs.
* Kitchen Sink
* Your Toothbrush
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Last week, Provenge, a therapeutic vaccine intended to prevent prostate cancer from spreading in men with an advanced form of the disease, was granted approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. According to HealthDay.com, “The new approval is limited to “the treatment of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and is resistant to standard hormone treatment.”
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According to Maggie Fox from Reuters, the special U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled on Friday that vaccines containing a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism. The family of an Oregon boy was seeking reimbursement, but their quest was put to an end when the special court ruled that vaccines could not have caused his autism. The court has ruled against several families who also felt that vaccines were the cause of their children’s autism. The parents of the autistic children said they had been “misled by physicians who are guilty, in my view, of gross medical misjudgment,” reports Fox.
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Unfortunately, the Swine Flu has not gone away forever, but the pandemic was much milder than expected due to fast actions and good decisions made by federal officials, and also a little bit of good luck.
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Because many parents are worried about the safety of vaccines given to their children, many parents are refusing to get their kids vaccinated at all. A vaccine was created 15 years ago to prevent chickenpox, but because parents are refusing to get their kids vaccinated, researchers “found that children [who were not vaccinated] were nine times as likely to get chickenpox,” reports WebMD.
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It seems that everywhere you turn there are signs that read, ‘H1N1 Vaccines Available Here’. Grocery stores, pharmacies, and several other retailers are fighting to get their name out there to advertise their in-store health clinics. Rite Aid and Kroger are promoting themselves by putting signs up on their front doors, and putting ads in weekly ad circulars. Walgreens plans to take it a step further by putting ads for the vaccine on their website and on television.
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California was suffering from a severe shortage of H1N1 vaccines; however, now it appears that the shortage is calming causing some counties to offer vaccinations to the public. Counties such as Ventura and Sacramento now have no limitations on who can get the immunization.
Yet, other counties such as Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino are still reserving their vaccines for children, young adults, pregnant women and the chronically ill. Despite some counties reserving their vaccines for certain priority groups, officials state that the vaccine shortage is under control.
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There are efforts being made around the world to create a more efficient way of making vaccines. A “new Novartis AG vaccine plant in North Carolina is supposed to boost the U.S.’s ability to fight pandemics like the current swine-flu virus,” reports Betsy McKay and Jeanne Whalen from The Wall Street Journal.
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About 40 deaths occurred in people who were vaccinated against H1N1 which led health authorities to explore the issue. WHO has declared that so far none of the deaths are linked to the vaccination. The H1N1 vaccine is said to be as safe as the seasonal flu vaccine with normal side effects including swelling and redness or pain at the injection site, and a few said they suffered from fever or headache.
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