Flu Vaccines
New findings from University of Colorado, Denver and Health Sciences Center describe advances in flu vaccines
Published in Vaccine Weekly, January 17th, 2007
Scientists discuss in "Influenza vaccine effectiveness in healthy 6- to 21-month-old children during the 2003-2004 season" new findings in flu. In this recent report published in the Journal of Pediatrics, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To assess the clinical effectiveness of influenza vaccine in preventing influenza-like illness (ILI) office visits. We analyzed billing and immunization registry data for healthy 6-to 21-month-olds from 5 Denver, Colorado pediatric practices (n=5193). ILI and pneumonia/influenza (a subset of ILI) were defined from International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification codes for office visits occurring...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-01-17)
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