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Factors associated with vaccination for hepatitis B, pertussis, seasonal and pandemic influenza among French general practitioners: A 2010 survey.
Abstract
Our objectives were to describe the vaccine coverage (VC(1)) for some occupational vaccines (hepatitis B, pertussis, seasonal and pandemic influenza) among French General Practitioners (GPs(2)) and to study the factors associated with being vaccinated for each of these four diseases. We surveyed a representative national sample of 1431 self-employed GPs in France. Self-reported VC was 76.9% for 2009/10 seasonal influenza, 73.0% for hepatitis B, 63.9% for pertussis and 60.8% for A/H1N1 pandemic influenza. The factors associated with reporting being vaccinated were quite different from one vaccine to anothe...
Source: Vaccine - June 24, 2013 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Pulcini C, Massin S, Launay O, Verger P Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research
80 years ago today: MRC researchers discover viral cause of flu | Michael Bresalier
Forget bird flu and swine flu, it was ferret flu and The Field magazine that helped MRC scientists discover the influenza virus, after eleven years of dedicated research.In the spring of 1933 a team of Medical Research Council (MRC) staff gathered nasal fluids and throat garglings from a sick researcher, filtered them, and dripped them into ferrets. Within forty-eight hours the ferrets would start sneezing and displaying signs of an influenza-like disease. This research formed the basis of an extraordinarily important Lancet paper by Wilson Smith, Christopher H Andrewes and Patrick Laidlaw, published on 8 July 1933, identi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 8, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Blogposts guardian.co.uk Medical research History of science Source Type: news
Inspecting the Mechanism: A Longitudinal Analysis of Socioeconomic Status Differences in Perceived Influenza Risks, Vaccination Intentions, and Vaccination Behaviors during the 2009-2010 Influenza Pandemic
Conclusions. Closing the socioeconomic gap in influenza vaccination requires multipronged strategies that not only increase vaccination intentions by improving knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs but also facilitate follow-through on initial vaccination plans by improving behavioral control and access to vaccination for individuals with low education, employed persons, and the uninsured.
Source: Medical Decision Making - August 30, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Maurer, J. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Continuing challenges in influenza
Influenza is an acute respiratory disease in mammals and domestic poultry that emerges from zoonotic reservoirs in aquatic birds and bats. Although influenza viruses are among the most intensively studied pathogens, existing control options require further improvement. Influenza vaccines must be regularly updated because of continuous antigenic drift and sporadic antigenic shifts in the viral surface glycoproteins. Currently, influenza therapeutics are limited to neuraminidase inhibitors; novel drugs and vaccine approaches are therefore urgently needed. Advances in vaccinology and structural analysis have revealed common a...
Source: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - May 30, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Robert G. Webster, Elena A. Govorkova Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Preparing for the unpredictable: The continuing need for pandemic influenza preparedness.
PMID: 27682508 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Vaccine - September 23, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Gellin BG, Qadri F Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research
Examples of Outcome Reporting Bias in Vaccine Studies: Illustrating How Perpetuating Medical Consensus Can Impede Progress in Public Health
CONCLUSIONS: Conflicts of interest (e.g., financial) that abound between health regulatory agencies and the pharmaceutical industry impact what is ultimately reckoned as medical consensus. Outcome reporting bias that is inherent to all researchers to some degree, obscures medical and scientific truth. Advancement of public health requires that researchers have integrity and an openness and willingness to collaborate to resolve contradictory findings. In fact, it is usually through meticulous, rigorous, scientific investigation of contradictory findings that medical science has advanced and contributed to improvements in pu...
Source: Herpes - October 28, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Gary S Goldman Source Type: research
External cues to action and influenza vaccination among post-graduate trainee physicians in Toronto, Canada.
CONCLUSION: Self-reported vaccination coverage among trainee physicians was high. External cues to action appear to be particularly important in trainee physician vaccination decisions: active institutional promotion may increase influenza vaccination rates in trainees.
PMID: 24837775 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Vaccine - May 13, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Nowrouzi-Kia B, McGeer A Tags: Vaccine Source Type: research
Narcolepsy in Adolescence — A Missed Diagnosis: A Case Report
In this report, we present a case of an adolescent male with all four cardinal symptoms of narcolepsy who was misdiagnosed with epilepsy, psychosis, and depression. We also discuss various issues regarding narcolepsy in children and adolescents.
Case Report
Mr. A, an 18-year-old man, presented to psychiatry outpatient services with excessive daytime sleepiness of approximately 1.5 years’ duration. When the chronology of symptoms was evaluated, it was evident that about 1.5 years before presentation, the patient had an episode of high-grade fever (101–103?F) and was empirically treated for typhoid and malaria. Within a ...
Source: Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience - July 1, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: ICNS Online Editor Tags: Case Report Current Issue adolescence misdiagnosis narcolepsy Source Type: research
Adherence to influenza vaccination among medical students during and after influenza a (h1n1) pandemic.
This study evaluated the adherence to influenza vaccination among medical students in 2010 and 2011. From August to December 2011, a questionnaire was used to record the influenza vaccination in 2010 and 2011, reasons for acceptance of the influenza vaccine and knowledge of healthcare workers about the influenza vaccine recommendation. One hundred and forty-four students from the 2ndto the 6th years of the medical school were interviewed. A great adherence to pandemic influenza vaccine was noted in 2010, (91% of the students), with "self-protection" being the most common reason cited for vaccination. Other determinants for...
Source: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo - November 2, 2016 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Paula SI, Paula GI, Cunegundes KS, Moraes-Pinto MI Tags: Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo Source Type: research
Bird flu researchers get green light to continue work on engineered virus
A voluntary moratorium on research involving lab-created versions of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been liftedResearch on lab-engineered strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus is set to restart a year after the scientists voluntarily paused it to allow for an international public debate on the safest way to proceed.Last year, two teams of scientists in the United States and the Netherlands submitted papers for publication in Science and Nature describing how they had engineered the H5N1 bird flu virus – which kills half of the people it infects but cannot naturally transmit from person to person – to spread more easily betwe...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 23, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Alok Jha Tags: Bird flu Genetics Biology World news Infectious diseases Health guardian.co.uk Medical research Microbiology Society Controversies in science Source Type: news
Scientists concerned at H7N9 bird flu outbreak that has killed 24 people
• Virus killing a fifth of those infected in China• World Health Organisation considers it a serious threatScientists are seriously concerned about a new bird flu virus that is causing severe disease in China, killing a fifth of all those it infects.So far, the virus, known as H7N9, is being transmitted only to humans from chickens, but there are worries that it could mutate into a form that could be passed from one person to another. Five mutations are known to be necessary for that to happen – H7N9 already has two of them. If that occurred, it could spread worldwide with lethal effect.According to the World Health ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 1, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Tags: Bird flu Asia Pacific World news Infectious diseases Health guardian.co.uk Medical research Microbiology China Editorial Science Source Type: news
Flu research may lead to universal vaccine
Conclusion
This research has identified that CD8+ T-cells are linked with protection against different strains of influenza. They are also linked with reduced severity of flu.
The authors note that current vaccines that use inactivated forms of the flu virus protect against specific strains, and do not induce a strong maintained T-cell response. They suggest that, in light of their findings, this may be the reason why they produce limited protection across different subtypes of influenza virus. They say that further testing is needed to see if the live vaccines being used are better at producing cross-subtype protection, ...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Medication Medical practice Source Type: news
New deadly strain of bird flu may have emerged
“Experts are concerned about the spread of a new strain of bird flu that has already killed one woman in China,” BBC News reports.
The new strain, which has evolved from an existing bird flu virus called H10N8, has infected two people in China.
A case report in The Lancet medical journal warns that potential for a new pandemic “should not be underestimated”.
Their genetic tests of the strain suggests it has adapted to infect humans more easily.
That said, experts suggest there is currently no cause for alarm. There is no evidence that the new strain can pass between humans. Also, the woman who died of the ne...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 5, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Swine flu QA articles Medical practice Source Type: news
Volume: 26 Issue: 4
This article documents the first case of TSS associated with the use of a menstrual cup in a 37-year-old woman. The authors also discuss the history of TSS associated with tampon use and the mechanisms by which menstrual cups may also lead to the syndrome.
Avian influenza A (H5N1) infection with respiratory failure and meningoencephalitis in a Canadian travellerSince 1997, more than 600 individuals worldwide have been infected with the poultry-originating influenza, H5N1. This report describes the first case of avian influenza A (H5N1) in the Western hemisphere in a 28-year-old woman who had just returned from a trip to Be...
Source: Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology - December 23, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research
