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Article: Pregnant women face high risk of pandemic flu.
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- Internal Medicine Alert
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Pregnant women face high risk of pandemic flu
H1N1 vaccine trials under way
Pregnant women appear to be particularly vulnerable to H1N1 influenza A virus and will be the top priority to receive a vaccine expected to be available this fall against the pandemic strain, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recently recommended.
Recently published Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data underscore the risk, finding more complications and hospitalizations after H1N1 infection during pregnancy..sup.1 "These data lend support to the present recommendation to promptly treat pregnant ...