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CDC tests show flu vaccine has 80 percent success rate.

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| December 09, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From China Post)

Lab results released yesterday by the Center for Disease Control found most flu shots offered in Taiwan had an 80 percent success rate against the A Fujian virus.

The vaccines available in Taiwan are designed to prevent A Panama flu. They were nearly out of stock after the first suspected case of the A Fujian strain, a variant of the A Panama strain, was reported recently.

An eight-year-old boy caught a virus similar to that of A Fujian strain last week, and further lab analysis in the U.S. will determine if he caught A Fujian flu.

The new flu strain was first discovered in the southern Chinese province of Fujian last …

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