Flu Vaccines
New flu vaccines study findings have been reported by scientists at University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Tropical Medicine
Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 7th, 2007
A report, "Attitudes of health care workers to influenza vaccination: why are they not vaccinated," is newly published data in American Journal of Infection Control. According to a study from Sao Paulo, Brazil, "Compliance rates with influenza vaccination among health care workers (HCW) are historically low. Although a safe and effective vaccine is available, the reasons for such poor compliance are not well understood."
"After a campaign encouraging HWC to vaccinate against influenza, we conducted an epidemiologic survey to evaluate the reasons for compliance and accompanied the impact of these measures (campaign and questionnaire) during the subsequent 2 years....
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-03-07)
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