Showing posts with label Effectiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Effectiveness. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

CDC Study: Lives Saved By the Flu Vaccine

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  # 9887   Given this year’s poor performance, and resultant bad press, from the seasonal flu shot it is understandable that the CDC...
Tuesday, March 03, 2015

CDC: Updated Estimated Seasonal Flu Vaccine Effectiveness

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  # 9778     By early November (see A `Drift’ In A Sea Of Influenza Viruses ) it was becoming obvious that the performance of  th...
Friday, February 06, 2015

Revisiting CIDRAP’s - The Need For Better Flu Vaccines

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  # 9780   There’s an accusatory headline, and article, in the UK’s Telegraph today (see Flu vaccine: Ministers may have known of d...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

MMWR: Reduced Protection From This Year’s Flu Vaccine

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Photo Credit - CDC PHIL   # 9581   It is always a bit of a gamble heading into flu season every year since flu vaccines – whose st...
Sunday, November 02, 2014

A `Drift’ In A Sea Of Influenza Viruses

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P&I Mortality Surveillance by Week & Year - CDC   # 9278   There is always a degree of folly attached to trying to predi...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

ECDC: Influenza Characterization – Sept 2014

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Credit NIAID   # 9229   Although we tend to talk of seasonal H1N1, or H3N2 ( or the B viruses ) as individual entities – in truth ...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

CDC: Flu Shots Reduce Hospitalizations In The Elderly

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Photo Credit - CDC PHIL     # 8596   Although the elderly (> 65) are considered to be the most endangered by influenza infect...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Branswell On Low Flu Vaccine Effectiveness In 2012-13 Flu Season

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  # 8404     Helen Branswell has the story on a PLoS One study, published yesterday, that found an unusual `production issue’ w...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

CDC Research On Benefits Of Antivirals For Uncomplicated Influenza

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Photo Credit – Wikipedia   # 8004   In clinical medicine there are a lot of things that we think we know – based on observational...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

PLoS One: Limited Effectiveness Of Flu Vaccines In The Elderly

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  # 7869     A topic we’ve covered often in the past has been the limited effectiveness of influenza vaccines among the elderly...