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March 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
FDA Approves Four-Strain Flu
Vaccine
A new nasal-spray flu vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration protects against four strains of common flu, adding one
more barrier to infection.
Okayed for people 2 to 49 years old, the FluMist Quadrivalent vaccine
from AstraZeneca guards against two strains of influenza A and two strains
of influenza B, the Associate Press reported. Previous vaccines
protected against two influenza A strains but only one influenza B strain.
“Illness caused by Influenza B virus affects children, particularly
young and school-aged, more than any other population,” Dr. Karen Midthun,
director of the FDA biologics center, said in an agency news release.
Flu sickens millions of people a year. Annual deaths from flu vary
widely, with FDA figures showing a low of 3,000 and a high of 49,000 over
the past 30 or so years, the AP said.
The new vaccine, much like the existing FluMist vaccine, carries a
weakened strain of the virus.
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Reconsider Decision Not to Publish Bird Flu
Research, Experts Say
U.S. health officials have asked government biosecurity advisers to
reconsider their recommendation that details of research involving the
spread of so-called H5N1 bird flu be withheld from the public.
Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday
said new information has come to light, and that flu experts at the World
Health Organization have also concluded that the work should be published,
the Associated Press reported.
Research conducted in Wisconsin and the Netherlands recently triggered
alarm when it appeared that scientists had devised a form of bird flu that
spread more easily from mammal to mammal. U.S. officials, fearing a
deadly flu of pandemic proportions, urged that details of the experiments
be withheld from the public so they couldn’t be used by bioterrorists.
But at a meeting of researchers Wednesday, Dr. Ron Fouchier, a virology
professor at the Netherlands’ Erasmus University, and one of the original
team members, said the strain didn’t spread easily after all and that
people with exposure to regular flu seemed protected from serious
infection.
Publishing the research would benefit the scientific community and
further research into bird flu mutations, vaccines and treatment, Fouchier
said.
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Feds Uncover Record-Breaking Medicare
Scam
A Texas doctor allegedly recruited homeless people as fake patients in
a wide-ranging, $375 million Medicare home health-care scam, the largest
ever uncovered, investigators say.
Dr. Jacques Roy, 54, was arrested Wednesday and charged with falsifying
hundreds of Medicare claims and taking millions of dollars for unneeded or
undelivered services. He could be sent to prison for life, ABC News
reported.
“According to the indictment, Dr. Roy and his co-conspirators, for
years, ran a well-oiled fraudulent enterprise in the Dallas area, making
millions by recruiting thousands of patients for unnecessary services, and
billing Medicare for those services,” said Assistant Attorney General
Lanny Breuer.
The indictment alleges that Roy certified more Medicare beneficiaries
for home health services and claimed more patients than any other U.S.
doctor in the years 2006 to 2011, ABC said.
To obtain reimbursement from Medicare, doctors must certify that the
medical services were needed and performed. Roy’s operation, Medistat
Group and Associates, allegedly certified false claims involving nearly
500 home health care companies in Texas. The companies were reimbursed for
the bogus or unnecessary services and provided Roy with a portion of the
“refund.” All told, they billed Medicare for more than $350 million and
Medicaid for more than $24 million, the news report said.
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