The H1N1 flu vaccine protects both pregnant women and newly-borns
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
The researchers studied the immune response of 107 pregnant women after they were injected with a single dose of non-adjuvant H1N1 vaccine. They concluded that the influenza shot boosted the immune response in pregnant women and at the same time protected neuronatal babies via the antibodies that transferred through the placenta.