Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan and Gross, Diane and Sturkenboom, Miriam and Parrish-Sprowl, John (2015) Influenza vaccines really work? Keeping apart the true

Influenza vaccines really work? Keeping apart the true from the false.

Adjuvanted versus nonadjuvanted influenza vaccines in young children: comparing results from recent clinical trials

A relatively high burden of influenza is experienced by young children. In order to successfully tackle the burden of influenza in children, effective vaccines are necessary. Accumulated evidence on the efficacy and effectiveness of traditional inactivated split or subunit trivalent influenza vaccines points towards no significant protection in the youngest children, who are largely unprimed. A...

Bacterial Pneumonia and Pandemic Influenza Planning

Pandemic influenza planning is well under way across the globe. Antiviral drugs and vaccines have dominated the therapeutic agenda. Far less work has been conducted on stockpiling and planning for deployment of antimicrobial drugs against secondary bacterial pneumonia, a cause of substantial illness and death in previous pandemics and epidemics. In the event of a pandemic, effective antimicrobi...

Doctors accepting flu vaccination is the sensible and responsible choice.

Patel’s jaunty and amusing article concludes with: “after all, how bad can man flu be?” The answer is that, for men and women, flu can be devastating and even lethal. This is especially true for sick and vulnerable patients. Patel misses the point: we should be vaccinated not only to keep us hard at work through those long winter days and nights, but also to prevent us getting flu and, despite ...

The effect of the hexanic extracts of fig (Ficus carica) and olive (Olea europaea) fruit and nanoparticles of selenium on the immunogenicity of the inactivated avian influenza virus subtype H9N2

Influenza is a contagious viral disease that is seen in avian, human and other mammals, so its control is important. Vaccination against influenza virus subtype H9N2 is one of the ways in controlling program, for this reason several vaccines has been produced. Recently, application of inactivated oil-emulsion vaccines in poultry for controlling low pathogenic avian influenza is increasing. At p...