On January 11, 2013, the CDC published in its () with early-season data on the effectiveness of this year's flu vaccine. The key finding: Vaccination was only 62% effective overall in keeping people from getting a bad enough case of influenza to end up seeing a doctor about it.Elenor...
Studies have reported that prior-season influenza vaccination is associated with higher risk of clinical influenza infection among vaccinees. This effect might arise from incomplete consideration of within-season waning and recent infection. Using data from the US Flu Vaccine Effectiveness (VE) Network (...
The Influenza Complications Alert Network (FluCAN) is a sentinel hospital-based surveillance program that operates at 15 sites across all states and territories in Australia. This study reports on the epidemiology of hospitalisation with confirmed influenza, estimate vaccine coverage and influenza vaccine...
Only 17.1% of test-negative-controls were vaccinated. The VE of inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine for preventing hospitalized influenza was estimated at 30.3% (95% confidence interval, 2.6%-50.2%). Conclusions: Significant influenza-associated morbidity was observed in 2017 in Australia. Most ...
Effectiveness of AS03 adjuvanted pandemic H1N1 vaccine:Welcome to the SCIENTIFIC LIBRARYVaccines
Background. Influenza vaccines may be reformulated annually because of antigenic drift in influenza viruses. However, the relationship between antigenic characteristics of circulating viruses and vaccine effectiveness (VE) is not well understood. We conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of US ...
Da Hee HanPharmD
Stobbe, Mike
The CDC explained that one of the causes of the reduced effectiveness is that about 70 percent of the H3N2 viruses, the strain that has predominated so far during the 2014-2015 flu season, are different or have changed with respect to what is included in the vaccine....
The grant is designed to assess the effectiveness of influenza vaccine in preventing laboratory-confirmed flu infections. The eligibility of this grant includes domestic for-profit and nonprofit public and private institutions and organizations.EBSCO_bspFederal Grants & Contracts Weekly...