Vaccinate before the next pandemic?

In March, the European Medicines Agency reported that since October more than 42 million Europeans, nearly half a million of whom were pregnant, had been vaccinated with one of the three pandemic vaccines authorized for use in the European Union, with no more adverse reactions than would be expected...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 465; no. 7295; p. 161
Main Author Stoehr, Klaus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 13.05.2010
Nature Publishing Group
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
Developing countries
Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control
Disease Outbreaks - statistics & numerical data
Global Health
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Immunization
Influenza Vaccines - administration & dosage
Influenza Vaccines - adverse effects
Influenza Vaccines - economics
Influenza Vaccines - supply & distribution
Influenza, Human - economics
Influenza, Human - epidemiology
Influenza, Human - prevention & control
Influenza, Human - transmission
LDCs
multidisciplinary
opinion
Pandemics
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Time Factors
Vaccination - adverse effects
Vaccination - economics
Vaccination - methods
Vaccines
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Summary:In March, the European Medicines Agency reported that since October more than 42 million Europeans, nearly half a million of whom were pregnant, had been vaccinated with one of the three pandemic vaccines authorized for use in the European Union, with no more adverse reactions than would be expected from a seasonal influenza vaccine4. [...] by the end of last year, more than 10 H1 vaccines were developed through clinical trials involving tens of thousands of subjects around the world, again with safety profiles comparable to seasonal flu vaccines.
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ISSN:0028-0836
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DOI:10.1038/465161a