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Flu Drug Tamiflu May Cause Odd Behavior in Children
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 One expert thinks the flu vaccine is safe and effective, and that thimerosal is not really a problem, compared with the potential consequences of flu.
"We have environmental concerns, but to put it all on thimerosal based on an unproven association is really the wrong way to go," said Dr. Marc Siegel, a clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine, and author of Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic. "I am satisfied that there has never been an association shown between thimerosal and autism."
Each year in the United States, as much as 20 percent of the population can get the flu, more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications, and about 36,000 people die from the disease, according to the CDC.
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For more on the flu and flu vaccines, visit the CDC (www.cdc.gov ).
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Last updated 11/13/2006
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SOURCES: Marc Siegel, M.D., clinical associate professor of medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, author, Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic; Nov. 13, 2006, press conference with Julie Gerberding, M.D., director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; John Agwunobi, M.D., assistant secretary for health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.; L. J. Tan, M.D., American Medical Association, Chicago; Nov. 13, 2006, Archives of Internal Medicine; Associated Press
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