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  2. 10 Facts About Vaccines That Will Blow Your Mind - AOL

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    Jump ahead another 120 years or so to 1918 when the first flu shot was administered to the U.S. military in an attempt to thwart the Spanish Flu; vaccines that followed include those to combat ...

  3. Influenza vaccine - Wikipedia

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    The influenza vaccine is indicated for active immunization for the prevention of influenza disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and type B contained in the vaccine. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 76 ] The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the flu vaccine as the best way to protect people against the flu and prevent its ...

  4. Timeline of influenza - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of influenza, briefly describing major events such as outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, discoveries and developments of vaccines.In addition to specific year/period-related events, there is the seasonal flu that kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people every year and has claimed between 340 million and 1 billion human lives throughout history.

  5. Spanish flu - Wikipedia

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    A 2009 study in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses based on data from fourteen European countries estimated a total of 2.64 million excess deaths in Europe attributable to the Spanish flu during the major 1918–1919 phase of the pandemic, in line with the three prior studies from 1991, 2002, and 2006 that calculated a European death toll ...

  6. Timeline of human vaccines - Wikipedia

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    2003 – First nasal influenza vaccine approved in U.S. 2003 – First vaccine for Argentine hemorrhagic fever. [16] 2006 – First vaccine for human papillomavirus (which is a cause of cervical cancer) 2006 – First herpes zoster vaccine for shingles; 2011 – First vaccine for non-small-cell lung carcinoma (comprises 85% of lung cancer cases)

  7. US, European nations consider vaccinating workers ... - AOL

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    Seasonal flu vaccine makers, including Sanofi, could also be asked to shift to producing pandemic flu vaccines. The U.S. is in talks with mRNA vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna about potential ...

  8. Paul A. Lewis - Wikipedia

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    These discoveries helped pave the way for development of a polio vaccine in 1955. [5] With Richard E. Shope in 1931, Lewis discovered an influenza A virus that could infect both pigs and humans. This virus turned deadly when co-infected with Haemophilus influenzae , illuminating the origins of the Spanish flu . [ 6 ]

  9. Influenza pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, was a category 5 influenza pandemic caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. The difference between the influenza mortality age-distributions of the 1918 epidemic and normal epidemics.