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Pregnant Women Need Only 1 Dose of Swine Flu Vaccine
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Pregnant women need only one dose of vaccine to protect them from the swine flu, according to government data released Monday that confirm what officials have been recommending.
Federally funded studies also affirmed that children age 9 and younger will need two doses of vaccine to produce a strong enough response by their immune systems to protect them against the H1N1 virus, officials reported.
The findings came as an independent panel of experts organized by the Health and Human Services Department to monitor the safety of the vaccine met for the first time to review the data.
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