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Studies from University of Sao Paulo Have Provided New Data on Influenza Vaccines

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 14th, 2012

2012 MAR 14 -- A new study, "Fighting Misconceptions to Improve Compliance with Influenza Vaccination among Health Care Workers: An Educational Project," is now available. "The compliance with influenza vaccination is poor among health care workers (HCWs) due to misconceptions about safety and effectiveness of influenza vaccine. We proposed an educational prospective study to demonstrate to HCWs that influenza vaccine is safe and that other respiratory viruses (RV) are the cause of respiratory symptoms in the months following influenza vaccination. 398 HCWs were surveyed for adverse events (AE) occurring within 48 h of vaccination," scientists writing in the journal Plos...

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