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Airline flight crews benefit from influenza vaccination.
2002 DEC 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Vaccination against influenza is safe and reduces sick days in civilian flight crew personnel, researchers in Brazil find.
"Approximately 10% of the general population worldwide acquires influenza infection every year," reported Maria S.A.G. Mixeu and colleagues at the Ruben Berta Foundation in Sao Paulo, Brazil. "Airline crews run a particularly high risk of contracting influenza and influenza-like viruses because they come in contact with hundreds of potentially infected individuals every day."
Mixeu and her associates conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 813 healthy volunteers working for a Brazilian airline. The investigators randomly assigned the participants to receive an injection of either a trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine or a placebo. Follow-up was conducted 7 months after vaccine or placebo injection.
The incidence of influenza-like illness was 39.5% lower in vaccinated subjects (p
"The data indicate that influenza vaccination is safe in airline flight crews and may produce health-related benefits including reduced absenteeism," concluded Mixeu and her coauthors (Impact of influenza vaccination on civilian aircrew illness and absenteeism. Aviation, Space, and ...
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