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Injection of pregnant women with influenza vaccine one months or more than one month before birth can prevent many cases of influenza during the first 6 months of life of their babies, suggest the results of American research, quoted by Reuters. Immunization will protect the mother and her baby, said pediatrician Dr. Mark Staynhof of Bloomberg Institute of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Within the test covered 340 pregnant women in Bangladesh, the injections reduced the risk of illness from influenza by 63 percent and the risk of respiratory illnesses by 29 percent.
6 diseases were registered from influenza in the vaccinated group of women, in 16 cases of influenza among women injected with another vaccine. Injections further reduced by 36 percent likelihood of fever and respiratory diseases among mothers. The survey results are published in the journal “New Ingland Jamal av medisin. “Physicians have long study that immunization of the mother can protect her newborn,” explained Dr. Staynhof. “There is no reason to believe that the influenza vaccine may not work the same way. We assume that this is so, but so far no one had done similar research, “he added. Injection of influenza vaccine is recommended to pregnant women of the U.S. Centers for Control and prevention of diseases, but this recommendation is often ignored. “The survey results may lead many women to say – It really helps me and my baby,” said Dr. Staynhof.