New flu vaccine may not need needles (AP)
AP - Relief may be on the way for all those youngsters trembling at the thought of another needle jab. One day the flu vaccine may simply be placed under the tongue.
Source: news.yahoo.comCold meds send 7,000 kids to hospitals (AP)
AP - Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem.
Source: news.yahoo.comIndia steps up culling, calls for calm as bird flu spreads (AFP)
AFP - India's West Bengal state has said that it was slaughtering chickens on a "war footing" as bird flu spread to new areas of the highly-populated province of 80 million people.
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