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East Bay Woman, 46, Dies From H1N1

The tragic stories keep piling up, and even though it may not be the pandemic we all fear could strike one year, H1N1 is still killing people in the prime of their lives.

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Swine Flu Death Toll On The Rise

Do you remember swine flu? Swine flu remembers you. And now that we're in the depths of the bowels of the pits of flu season (bizarre weather be damned), the dreaded

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Have You Gotten Your Flu Shot?

Relatively young, healthy people have been dying from the H1N1 flu strain going around this year not in large in numbers, but still. There have so far been nine Bay Area flu deaths

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Let's Do Shots: H1N1

Yes, the SF Public Health Department invites you to do shots with them, swine flu shots, that is. If you missed the big vaccination extravaganza at the Bill Graham Auditorium before the holidays,

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Swinestock!

While we're on the subject of vaccinations, it seems the supply of H1N1 vaccine is starting to catch up with demand, so the San Francisco Department of Public Health is holding

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H1N1 Vaccine Recalled

KTVU reports that the San Francisco Department of Public Health "estimated that about 9,000 doses of a pediatric H1N1 vaccine recalled by the federal government were distributed within the city."

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Humans Infecting Pets With H1N1?

While the rest of the world frets over long vaccine lines, or lack of vaccine doses, we have pressing news for you today: transmitting H1N1 to your cat or dog. Up until last

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Free Doctor Housecalls For HIV+ People With Flu

A clinical trial is taking place in San Francisco for HIV+ people who are exhibiting flu symptoms in which they can qualify for free in-home doctor visits. Quest Clinical Studies, Conant Medical

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Get Flu Shot, Get on Plane

We don't know the larger wisdom behind this effort, but several flu shot kiosks have been set up at SFO dispensing H1N1 vaccinations to those 18 and older for the reasonable

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First Swine Flu Vaccines To Be Released As Nasal Spray

The first batch of H1N1 flu vaccines, some 3.4 million doses, will come in the form of a nasal spray from a company called MedImmune. We couldn't be more pleased

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Newsom Announces Free H1N1 (Swine) Flu Shots

In our continuing will-we-live-or-will-we-die H1N1 (swine) flu coverage, we just got word that Mayor Gavin Newsom is handing out free H1N1 shots. According to the Mayor'

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Swine Flu: Don't Panic, But Yes, Panic.

There were plenty of predictions this past spring that the H1N1 virus was going to come back to bite us in the ass this winter, and last week a White House advisory panel

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Castro Bar Owner Dies of Swine Flu

In a truly sad note this morning, Doug Murphy, co-owner of Moby Dick and, most recently, Blackbird, died Friday due to complications from the H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu. He