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Flu Vaccine Safe for HIV Patients

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 11th, 2001

- by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- Influenza vaccination has no measurable short- or long-term adverse effects for patients infected with HIV, study results show.

P.S. Sullivan and colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a study to "describe the effect of influenza vaccination on long-term change in CD4 count and HIV RNA level, and on progression to AIDS or death."

Sullivan et al. reviewed data involving more than 36,000 HIV positive patients from over 100 medical facilities in 10 American cities for their report ("Effect of influenza vaccination on disease progression among HIV infected persons,"...

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