Obesity is a metabolic disease characterized by low-level chronic inflammation. Obese individuals are susceptible to infection by viruses, and vaccination against these pathogens is less effective than in nonobese individuals. Here, we sought to...
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Influenza vaccine is rarely associated with neurological adverse effects such as Guillain Barré syndrome, encephalitis or aseptic meningitis. We report the case of a male patient that presented two episodes of acute encephalitis in consecutive...
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Abstract Background Healthcare workers’ influenza rates are unknown but may be similar to those of the general public. Healthcare workers may transmit influenza to patients. Objectives To identify all randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and...
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Hospitals and public health officials strongly promote healthcare worker (HCW) flu vaccination as a step to protect patients, but a new analysis found that evidence for a benefit isn’t as strong as previously thought. And influenza experts...
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The obese get significantly less protection from influenza vaccines than those at a more normative weight, even though those with excess weight are at higher risk for possibly fatal complications from the viral respiratory infection. This was...
Read more CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) today voted that live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), also known as the “nasal spray” flu vaccine, should notbe used during the 2016-2017 flu season. ACIP continues to recommend...
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The nasal spray version of the annual flu vaccine failed to protect kids again last year, the latest in a string of failures that has prompted an expert panel to recommend that doctors stop giving it to patients. Health officials reported...
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8 Year Old Mackenzie Coyne of Park City died Sunday shortly after testing positive for influenza A. Her family said it progressed quickly over the weekend, even though she had a flu shot. Now the community is coming together for her family to...
Read more Like most little girls, Marysue Grivna has her dolls tucked in underneath her arms as she sleeps. Elsa from Frozen is on one side and other beloved stuff animals crowd under her other arm. This where the similarity to other 12-year-old girls, or...
Read more A single mother-of-three became fully paralysed after getting a free flu injection at work. Kathy Watson-Jones, a hospital clerk from Greensborough in northeast Melbourne, received the vaccination on April 23 and that evening her legs started...
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How can you keep from getting the flu? The answer from the CDC has long been “get your flu shot.” When people ask about side effects they are told reactions are rare and mild, disappearing within a day or two. Starting last year, however, we...
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Review question We evaluated the effect of immunisation with influenza vaccines on preventing influenza A or B infections (efficacy), influenza-like illness (ILI) and its consequences (effectiveness), and determined whether exposure to influenza...
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