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Vaccination the best way to protect against influenza pandemic, study suggests
09 Oct 2008
Vaccination will provide the most effective way to protect people in the event of the next influenza pandemic, a new study has suggested.
Led by staff at UK academic institution the University of Leicester, the international research indicated each person would need two doses of flu jab to be protected.
The study found that regardless of which strain of avian flu individuals are originally vaccinated with, they are quickly protected against a wide range of type after being given a booster jab.
Published in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, the study looks at boosting the immunity of people who were immunised up to seven years ago in comparison to vaccinating participants for the first time.
"It generally takes two doses of vaccine to give a good response, so if a pandemic occurred it would take some time to produce vaccine and then administer two doses to protect people," commented Dr Iain Stephenson from the university.
As such, he suggested the stockpiling of vaccines to overcome some of these difficulties.
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