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Oct 22^nd mtg --2	Exhortations to get flu shots
	Grant $$$ ‘chase’

Similar presentations all over Canada – to get flu shots ---

Cote seemed intrigued that migrating birds and mosquito bites could cause a pandemic – thankfully no one ‘explained’ it to him (see below)

	NHA presentation on flu vaccine + West Nile
	Gordon-Payne switches sides to use her nursing background to give a (belated) presentation on West Nile (mosquito season over) and Murray Webster speaks on need for vaccination against flu

West Nile

Canadian Public Health Agency – resources site – including descriptions of symptoms, transmission etc (from mosquitoes to birds which act as viral reservoir and spread disease by migrations etc) – and (maps) -- West Nile tested birds by Health Region

Pandemic influenza

Wikipedia flu vaccine article (with links)

Flu map graphic – here week 41 – with some ‘activity’ on Central Coast ---

Weekly FluWatch reports

Note because of strains used in influenza virus vaccines in the 2007–2008 Northern Hemisphere influenza season

– some doubt effectiveness --- thus

Peer reviewed UK article suggests vaccinations have zero effect on educing elderly hospital admittance ‘acute respiratory admittance’

While this one claims the opposite – but data from 1990s

Medical News Today: Flu News stories

Google News results for flu influenza vaccine 2007

Chasing Grant $$

Using Council chambers for ‘Command Center’ requires alterations