Flu vaccine given to women during pregnancy keeps infants out of the hospital

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 04:42 in Health & Medicine

Infants born to women who received influenza vaccine during pregnancy were hospitalised at a lower rate than infants born to unvaccinated mothers, according to preliminary results of an ongoing study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. The team presented the study 29 October at the 47th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in Philadelphia...

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