Safety of H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccines in egg allergic patients in British Columbia
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Background The publicity of the H1N1 pandemic increased the demand for flu vaccination including in the egg allergic. The MMR protocol is safe but cumbersome. A simpler but less tried protocol with vaccines having <1.2 μg/ml egg protein has been available [1]. As current Canadian seasonal and H1N1 vaccines fulfill this criterion, we hypothesized either split or full administration is safe without skin testing.
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