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Babies born to mothers who contracted the swine flu virus faced a much greater risk of being stillborn according to a new study

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(American Society for Microbiology) The following articles appear in the July issues of journals from the American Society for Microbiology: "How Flu Virus Spreads To College Community: Major Implications for Control";"Research Illuminating Long-Term Non-Progression Suggests Novel Vaccination Strategy for HIV";"Protein Boosts Lung Cancer In Smokers, Non-Smokers; Potential Anti-Oncogenic Target";and "Antibiotic Disrupts Termite Microflora, Reducing Fertility, Longevity."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued four warning letters to companies that manufacture and market over-the-counter (OTC) drug products, including hand sanitizers, that claim to prevent infection from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (MRSA).

Labeling and marketing materials for the affected products also claim that they can prevent infection from other disease-causing agents.

In addition, the labeling of some of the firms' hand sanitizing drug products make claims related to preventing infection from E.coli and/or H1N1 flu virus.

GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization says countries have agreed on a deal to share flu virus samples after almost four years of fractious talks on the issue....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates.

Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital....

Health officials in Britain said the Swine Flu virus, which stirred fears of a global pandemic last year, has returned and killed ten people there in the last six weeks, Reuters reported.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The costly, time-consuming process of making, distributing and administering millions of seasonal flu vaccines would become obsolete if researchers could design a vaccine that confers decades-long protection from any flu virus strain.

Making such a universal influenza vaccine is feasible but licensing it may require innovation on several fronts, including finding new ways to evaluate the efficacy of vaccine candidates in clinical trials

(MedPage Today) -- The 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus will likely disappear unless it mutates to avoid high global immunity, researchers speculated.

(MedPage Today) -- Pandemic H1NI influenza was almost the only type of flu virus circulating in the U.S. during the 2009-2010 flu season -- and it disproportionately affected younger age groups, according to the CDC.