The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7337 p200
19 February 2005

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No survival benefit for flu jab

The benefits of influenza vaccination may be substantially less than previously thought, according to US researchers. They estimated influenza-related deaths among the elderly population but could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage with declining mortality rates in any age group (Archives of Internal Medicine 2005;165:265).