Low uptake of the flu vaccine by healthcare staff might be a response to the aggressive pro-vaccine rhetoric they experience at work.1 Healthcare staff are sophisticated consumers who can spot aggressive advertising campaigns that overestimate benefit, …...
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...
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 ...
"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, toldMeds...
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Q. Does it carry any side effects?I am pregnant and in my second trimester. I am having flu infections. I am prescribed with Sudafed. Does it carry any side effects? A.sudafed is a symptomatical medication. and you can pass the flu without it. in it's instruction its recommended not...
Administrative databases provide efficient methods to estimate influenza vaccine effectiveness (IVE) against severe outcomes in the elderly but are prone to intractable bias. This study returns to one of the linked population databases by which IVE against hospitalization and death in the elderly was fi...
The effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine has been found to be moderate [6], [7]. The accumulation of amino acid mutations on the antigenic sites of the hemagglutinin globular head of the influenza viruses reduces antibody recognition and drives antigenic drift [8]; although this happens fre...
studied 36 pregnant women during flu season in 2012 to 2014. They administered inactivatedinfluenza vaccineand blood samples were collected pre-vaccination and 14 days later. The influenza specific T-follicular helper cell response varied based on trimester of pregnancy in which the vaccine was given...
Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) and influenza (flu) vaccines are recommended for all pregnant women in each pregnancy. However, vaccination uptake is suboptimal. Our objective was to test of the efficacy of an online vaccine and social media resource in increasing uptake of Tdap and ...