Vaccine Safety
Many young adults fear vaccine injections
Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 14th, 2003
"Fear of injections may interfere with receipt of vaccines. The frequency, associations, and precipitators of fear-provoking factors of 400 travelers visiting a travel health clinic were evaluated," researchers in Israel report.
"The median age of this group was 25 [years], 7% were medical staff members, and 2.8% were regular injectors (insulin)," stated Yael Nir and colleagues at Bnai Zion Medical Center, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Carmel Medical Center in Haifa. "Eighty-five (21.7%; 95% confidence interval, 17.3-25.6%)...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2003-05-14)
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