The goal is to provide protection for years, if not a whole lifetime, against all seasonal flu strains and pandemic strains, making flu inoculation much more like that for measles and polio.
This year, weeks after my latest flu inoculation, on Friday, Jan . 4 my throat started feeling scratchy.
Europeans underestimated mortality of seasonal flu, and require more information about the protection given by seasonal flu inoculation.
Health authorities have urged people to get seasonal flu inoculations earlier than usual in order to leave time for the pandemic flu vaccinations, which are now beginning.
A Times editorial by Frank Bruni, calling for flu inoculations despite the hubbub, amplified my anxiety, as did my mother, who called from San Antonio: "We got our shots in August at Walgreens; you really shouldn't wait any longer, especially for Clara's sake".
Philip Tod, the European Union's spokesman on health and consumer protection, renewed calls for European Union countries to prepare stockpiles of seasonal flu vaccines, with special priority to inoculations of people age 65 and over and sufferers of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart failure.
Talk story about the Dept. of Health's emergency inoculation program against the Hong Kong flu.
By Paul Brodeur The New Yorker, January 11 , 1969P. 24 Talk story about the Dept. of Health's emergency inoculation program against the Hong Kong flu.
It was made the same way as the yearly flu vaccine, a painstaking process involving the inoculation of hen eggs.
Health care workers should be first in line for inoculation when vaccines against the swine flu virus are ready and approved, an expert panel at the World Health Organization concluded in a meeting last week.
The Parkinson's drug could be a sleeper hit, as could flu shot technology that might be faster at making inoculations for new strains, like this year's H1N1 virus.
