Influenza Vaccines

Vaccine Reduces Flu Incidence in Health Care Workers

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 15th, 1999

Annual flu shots are effective in preventing infection, onset of respiratory illness, and may reduce work absences, according to an article in the March 10, 1999, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

James A. Wilde, MD, formerly of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and colleagues studied 264 young health care professionals (HCP, mean age 28.4 years) without chronic medical problems at two teaching hospitals in Baltimore, Maryland, to determine the effectiveness of an influenza (flu) vaccine in reducing infection, illness, and absence from work. This is the first study in HCP to assess the effect of...

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