Date:   3/11/2010 5:35:37 AM ( 14 y ago)
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FLU SHOTS FUTILE: STUDY

Nursing Home Test; 'Didn't find' proof immunization stops virus

Tom Blackwell, National Post Published: Thursday, March 11, 2010

A new Canadian-led study has added to a simmering scientific dispute over flu-shot campaigns, concluding that immunizing nursing-home workers does nothing to cut the number of confirmed influenza cases among the homes' elderly residents.

Coming at the end of the largest flu-vaccination campaign in Canadian history, the review of previous studies calls for stepped-up research into alternative, lower-tech ways to combat the virus, such as improved hand washing.

"What troubled us is that [shots] had no effect on laboratory-confirmed influenza," said Dr. Roger Thomas of the University of Calgary, lead author of the paper published by the respected Cochrane Library.

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http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2668629


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