Merck announces voluntary vaccine recall of certain lots of PEDVAXHIB and COMVAX. Merck vaccine recall is due to the fact that the company cannot assure sterility of these specific vaccine lots.

GE Healthcare announced a collaboration agreement to develop and market a pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturing solution for selected international countries. This collaboration leverages GE Healthcare's bioprocess solutions and design expertise and Novavax's virus- like particle (VLP) and manufacturing platform.

As cold and flu season hits this year amid growing debate over the necessity of vaccinations, University of Toronto researchers have uncovered widespread misinformation in related videos on YouTube.

A new clinical countermeasures strategy has been developed to offer increased protection against the effects of a flu pandemic if a 'worst case scenario' happened.

New Jersey residents encouraged to be vaccinated against seasonal influenza, which each year leads to an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S.

Adenovirus: CDC reports that a virulent new form of a common cold virus known Adenovirus 14 has killed 10 people and hospitalized at least 53 since May 2006.

Minnesota has recorded its first culture-confirmed case of influenza for the 2007-08 season in a 44-year-old woman from Dakota County. The woman's illness was caused by the B/Shanghai-like strain of the virus, the Minnesota Department of Health reported today. The woman's virus is a good match for this year's vaccine, health officials said. The specimen was submitted by the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.

As cold and flu season approaches, millions of Americans begin stocking up their medicine cabinet with tissues, throat lozenges.

A panel of immunization experts has voted to expand the recommendation for the nasal spray influenza vaccine FluMist.

Bird flu experts say drug manufacturers will be able to sharply increase the amount of bird flu vaccine they are able to produce in the coming years.

Each year, approximately 226,000 people in the US are hospitalized with complications from influenza and an average of 36,000 die from the virus and its complications.

The flu shot is safe and can prevent you from getting influenza that may lead to serious complications like pneumonia and even death.

State health officials are encouraging people who are at high risk for developing complications from influenza to get the influenza vaccine before the coming winter season. Individuals who are considered to be at high risk are children age six months through five years of age, people age 50 and older, and individuals with chronic medical conditions or compromised immune systems.

The influenza A virus does not lie dormant during summer but migrates globally and mixes with other viral strains before returning to the Northern Hemisphere as a genetically different virus, according to biologists who say the finding settles a key debate on what the virus does during the summer off-season when it is not infecting people.

The Volusia County Health Department is kicking off the 2007-2008 flu shot season with multiple flu vaccine clinics countywide.