Kelly Mason, a public affairs spokeswoman for Google, said the company's Flu Trends site was meant to be only one source in addition to the C.D.C. and other flu surveillance methods.
Awareness of the 2010 campaign was scant and what was recalled tended to be from commercial advertising, for example, from private commercial companies promoting flu vaccinations and household hygiene products.
Theyd bought it just above $10 in mid-October amid a frenzy of bird-flu buys (the company makes a flu test).
Alison Marquiss, a Chiron spokeswoman, said the company would deliver flu vaccines through early December.
Aviron, a company developing a flu vaccine, arranged an equity line from Acqua Wellington in January, 2000.
A company producing swine flu vaccine for Britain has paid millions of pounds in out-of-court settlements after being accused of fraudulently overcharging for medicines.
He said the company's QuickVue flu test could detect 80percentt of infections if nasal samples were taken correctly and if the test was given early in the course of the disease, when more virus was present.
The company called its Flu Trends for Mexico experimental because unlike in the United States, it does not have historical surveillance data to validate that its search data correlates to actual infections.
China conducted the largest polio immunization in history in the 1990's, said Dr. David S. Fedson, retired medical director of the vaccines division for Sanofi-Aventis, a French drug company that produces flu vaccines.
And the Swiss company said its flu business, which is not part of the sale to U.K.-based GSK, would be divested in another pending deal, but it did not provide more specifics. .
