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Flu Vaccines
Study results from Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry provide new insights into flu vaccines
October 8th, 2008
Fresh data on flu are presented in the report 'Influenza vaccine in Hajj pilgrims: policy issues from field studies.' "In pilgrims returning to the UK from the Hajj in 2005 and 2006, protection from PCR-confirmed influenza by influenza vaccine was estimated using verified vaccination histories from those with symptoms consistent with influenza. Of 538 patients whose nasal swabs were analysed and immunisation histories confirmed 115 (21%) were in a high-risk group for influenza; half of these (58/115) were immunised against influenza, compared with a fifth (90/423) of those not at high risk," scientists in the United Kingdom report. "Five percent of vaccinated 'at risk'...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-10-08)
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