Uptake of influenza vaccination by patients with serious cardiac disease.

بررسی وضعیت ایمن سازی پرسنل بیمارستانهای دولتی شهر شیراز بر علیه آنفلوانزا

  Background and aims:     Increasing rate of reference of Influenza patients to hospitals besides recent H1N1 pandemic experiences and also threats of incoming Avian flu denote to the importance and necessity of Hospitals' staff annual vaccination against influenza.     Methods:     In this cross sectional and questionnaire based study 276 of shiraz general hospitals' personnel were selected b...

Promoting influenza vaccination of elderly patients in primary care.

BACKGROUND Though influenza is a serious health problem for elderly people, their influenza vaccination rate remains low in Switzerland. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the impact of an intervention combining multiple strategies to promote influenza vaccination of elderly patients in primary care. METHODS We conducted a pre-/post-intervention study in a university-based primary care clinic ...

Vaccination of Chicks with Experimental Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza Oilemulsion Vaccines by ln Ovo Inoculation

A Narrative Review of Influenza: A Seasonal and Pandemic Disease

Influenza is an acute respiratory disease caused by the influenza A or B virus. It often occurs in outbreaks and epidemics worldwide, mainly during the winter season. Significant numbers of influenza virus particles are present in the respiratory secretions of infected persons, so infection can be transmitted by sneezing and coughing via large particle droplets. The mean duration of influenza v...

Determination of Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Acceptation Rate and Assessment of Knowledge and Attitude of Physicians and Personnel of Ali-Asghar Children’s Hospital

Background: Influenza is an acute respiratory viral infectious disease that can cause 650,000 deaths annually. Hospital personnel are highly exposed to it. Attention should be paid to the fact that these people, along with the risk to themselves, spread the infection among other patients and vulnerable groups’ like pediatric patients. The best way to prevent the disease is vaccination, which ha...

Influenza vaccination in patients with asthma: why is the uptake so low?

BACKGROUND Patients with asthma are particularly susceptible to serious complications from influenza. The Chief Medical Officer recommends annual influenza vaccination for adult patients with asthma. The uptake of influenza vaccination by patients with asthma is only 40% and, unlike other high-risk groups, has failed to increase in recent years. AIM To investigate the contribution of sociodem...