European Study Estimates Pandemic H1N1 Vaccine 72% Effective Last Year - This Year = Unknown

[Tonka]

Source: http://www.internalmedicinenews.com...1-vaccine-effectiveness-at-72/13e5629047.html

European Study Estimates H1N1 Vaccine Effectiveness at 72%

By: ROBERT FINN, Internal Medicine News Digital Network

01/13/11


The vaccine for pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza was about 72% effective across seven European countries, according to findings from a case-control study published Jan. 11 in PLoS Medicine....more at the link.

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: European Study Estimates Pandemic H1N1 Vaccine 72% Effective Last Year - This Year = Unknown

Also another snip:

"..although specific vaccine effectiveness studies will have to be conducted to verify if similar rates of effectiveness are observed with 2010-2011 trivalent vaccines, Marta Valenciano, a veterinarian and epidemiologist at EpiConcept, Paris, and colleagues wrote in an accompanying summary of the study..."