Saturday, 17 December 2011

Pandemic Flu Vaccine-Protective Levels-Pregnant Women-Flu Strain-Vaccine

Pandemic flu vaccine protected pregnant women

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The Vaccine against the new 2009 flu strain offered high levels of protection for Pregnant Women and their Babies, a new study from France suggests. Three weeks after the expectant mothers got the vaccine against the novel H1N1 flu, 98 percent of them had developed Protective Levels of antibodies against the virus, researchers found. And when their babies were born, 95 percent of them had enough antibodies to be considered protected as well, report Dr. Vassilis Tsatsaris from Groupe Hospitalier Cochin-Saint Vincent de Paul in Paris and colleagues. ...read more..

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