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1. US may end up discarding unused H1N1 vaccine

WE HAVE TOO MUCH. WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH. THE OBAMA GIRLS DID NOT GET THE VACCINE. THE OBAMA GIRLS DID GET THE VACCINE. ETC. - ED.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government may end up throwing away unused doses of swine flu vaccine if people cannot get it soon enough, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.

Members of Congress questioned whether federal officials were too rosy in their estimates of how much vaccine would be available and when, and companies said they were still struggling to produce immunizations against H1N1.

CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said 22.4 million doses were now available to states, which can get them a day after they order them.

"It's quite likely that too little vaccine is one of the things that's making people more interested in getting vaccinated, frankly," Frieden told reporters.

"We think it will get easier to find vaccine in the weeks that come."

President Barack Obama's daughters found it. "Malia and Sasha were both vaccinated for H1N1 last week, after the vaccine became available to Washington, D.C. schoolchildren," a White House blog reads.

"President and Mrs. Obama have not yet been vaccinated for H1N1, and they will wait until the needs of the priority groups identified by the CDC -- including young people under the age of 24, pregnant women, and people with underlying conditions -- have been met."

Many states and cities say they have received about one-tenth as much vaccine as they originally had expected by this time. Frieden said the delays may discourage people who are lining up for vaccine.

"It is likely also as we produce more vaccine and as both people are given the opportunity to get vaccinated, and as disease maybe wanes in the future, we will have significant amounts of vaccine that can't be used," Frieden said.

"One of the messages for states, localities and health providers is not to reserve vaccine that they have available, to give it out as soon as it comes in, because more is on the way."

In September, U.S. officials said 40 million vaccine doses would be available by the end of October and they estimated 20 million doses a week would be delivered, with a goal of 250 million doses by the end of flu season in March or April.

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2. Israel refuses to free 125 detainees in exchange for Gilad Shalit

Israel's reluctance to release a group of 125 Palestinians is holding up a prisoner exchange deal, Osama al-Muzaini, a senior Hamas figure in charge of the negotiations over captive Israeli occupation soldier Gilad Shalit, said Wednesday.

Nearly a month has passed since the resistance group released a video proving that Shalit is alive and well, but both sides claim a prisoner swap is still far off. Al-Muzaini said Hamas cannot agree to a deal that would not include the release of the 125 Palestinians, all of whom are considered "heavy" prisoners. However, he said "serious and intense" negotiations were continuing, as are "efforts to remove the remaining obstacles."

"In any case, there are no developments at this time," said the Hamas figure, "But the German mediator wants to secure an agreement, and we are pleased with his work. I hope this affair will come to an end in the very near future." Any future prisoner exchange deal will apparently include the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit.

source: al manar tv


3. 'Washington Sniper' to be executed on Nov 10 by injection

WASHINGTON, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - John Allen Muhammad, a 'sniper,' who went on a killing spree in the United States in 2002 murdering 10 and wounding six people, was sent to death in Virginia on November 10.

Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said 'the sniper' will be executed by a lethal injection in the state of Virginia.

"Muhammad declined to choose between lethal injection and electrocution, so under state law [of Virginia] the method defaults to lethal injection," Traylor was quoted by the U.S. media as saying.

Muhammad, 48, carried out attacks with a teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, who is already serving a life sentence in the United States, and began shooting people with a sniper rifle in the states of Alabama and Louisiana, before moving to the Washington D.C. area.

source: ria novosti