Each year more than 500 million doses of seasonal influenza vaccine are administered around the world, with most doses being egg-grown inactivated subunit or split-virion vaccines. These vaccines tend to have moderate effectiveness against medically attended influenza for influenza A(H1N1) and ...
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The vaccine was 35% effective at preventing hospitalization for seniors in one study, and 42% effective in a second analysis. For people with weak immune systems, the vaccine reduced the risk of hospitalization by 44% in one study and 30% in another. The flu hit early this season, as...
Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of the vaccine of the seasonal flu against H1N1 flu. Methods: Case-control study, included 68 (n) health workers (HW) of the General Hospital Universitary of Alicante, who consulted by acute illness respiratory symptoms. Through the immunization register and ...
"This paper supports the fact that the vaccine is very effective for children under 18 years of age, and vaccinated children are far much less likely to get influenza and far much less likely to die from influenza," Infectious Diseases Society of America spokesperson Aaron Glatt, MD, toldMed...
Doing this on the day you get your flu shot may boost the effectiveness of the vaccine, a new study suggests.Sept. 29, 2017, 2:12 PM UTC / Source: TODAY By Linda Carroll Here's something to keep in mind as the U.S. braces for a potentially bad flu season: Being in a good mood...
Influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) varies seasonally due to host, virus and vaccine characteristics. To investigate how antigenic matching and dosage impact VE, we developed a mechanistic knowledge-based mathematical model. Immunization with a split va
The VE for preventing influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 was also analyzed in three hospitals where ImunoAce Flu and Linjudge FluA/pdm were utilized. We recorded the number of vaccine doses per patient (none, one, or two) and compared the VE among them. Because a single dose is recommended only ...
The search strategy consisted of the following combination of terms for PubMed: “Influenza vaccines” [MeSH Terms] OR “Influenza vaccine*” [Title/Abstract] OR “Flu vaccine” [Title/Abstract]) AND (“Child” [MeSH Terms] OR “Child” [Title/Abstract] OR “Children” [Title/Abstract] OR...
The Omicron variant has been associated with reduced vaccine effectiveness (VE) against mild disease with rapid waning. Meanwhile Omicron has also been associated with milder disease. Protection against severe disease has been substantially higher than p