Influenza Vaccine
Airline flight crews benefit from influenza vaccination
Published in Vaccine Weekly, December 18th, 2002
"Approximately 10% of the general population worldwide acquires influenza infection every year," reported Maria S.A.G. Mixeu and colleagues at the Ruben Berta Foundation in Sao Paulo, Brazil. "Airline crews run a particularly high risk of contracting influenza and influenza-like viruses because they come in contact with hundreds of potentially infected individuals every day."
Mixeu and her associates conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 813 healthy...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2002-12-18)
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