http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Vancouver%2Bresearcher%2Bfinds%2Bshot%2Blinked%2BH1N1%2Billness/7217609/story.html
A strange vaccine-related phenomenon spotted in Canada at the start
of the 2009 flu pandemic may well have been real, a new study suggests.
Researchers,
led by Vancouver's Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an influenza expert at the
B.C. Centre for Disease Control, noticed in the early weeks of the
pandemic that people who got a flu shot for the 2008-09 winter seemed to
be more likely to get infected with the pandemic virus than people who
hadn't received a flu shot.
Five studies done in several provinces
showed the same unsettling results. But initially research outside
Canada did not, and the effect was dismissed as a "Canadian problem," a
problem with the flu vaccine used in Canada.
But a new study suggests the findings were real.
A strange vaccine-related phenomenon spotted in Canada at the start
of the 2009 flu pandemic may well have been real, a new study suggests.
Researchers,
led by Vancouver's Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an influenza expert at the
B.C. Centre for Disease Control, noticed in the early weeks of the
pandemic that people who got a flu shot for the 2008-09 winter seemed to
be more likely to get infected with the pandemic virus than people who
hadn't received a flu shot.
Five studies done in several provinces
showed the same unsettling results. But initially research outside
Canada did not, and the effect was dismissed as a "Canadian problem," a
problem with the flu vaccine used in Canada.
But a new study suggests the findings were real.