Vaccine agains influenza H1N1

Above about vaccine of influenza H1N1.

By Erin McGowan, who rely on their sixth child around New Year, volunteer to try the vaccine against influenza H1N1 is unclear.

Not only voluntary, but wrote all but his youngest son, which is equal to 1, but unacceptable for a child test vaccine against swine flu.

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H1N1 influenza pandemic, "she said, a pregnant mother and five" Itty Bitty children - the eldest son-6 is a "substance that forms the disaster."

McGowan, 33, remains at home, Saint Louis, with a doctorate in psychology, told about how pregnant women are at high risk of complications from H1N1.

On September 3, 6% of deaths from H1N1 flu is confirmed as pregnant women, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. And infections of H1N1, pregnant women are more likely to be hospitalized than the general population, according to the National Institute of allergy and infectious Diseases.

Do you want to test the vaccine to people who need it most, "said Sharon Frey, professor of internal medicine overseeing the process of pregnancy at the University of Saint Louis, where he received his first dose of the McGowan Monday. Five other centers also enroll pregnant women in this process, which attracts up to 120.

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Analysis of vaccine in pregnant women is the effect, but that does not mean that this process is less clear.

"I walked to the point of calling it will have a point in thinking of drugs education and vaccines during pregnancy," said Anne Lyerly, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Duke University and experts field of Bioethics. "We know very little about how to treat these diseases during pregnancy, rather than a study of how the drugs work the body in a state of pregnancy.

Thousands of drugs sold in the United States, only a dozen are tested and approved for pregnant women, "says Lyerly.

Manufacturers do not pregnant women for fear of damaging their fetuses. The same concern many pregnant women are nervous to stop taking drugs, even non-controlled chronic diseases such as asthma can damage the mother and child.

Test for H1N1, "My first reaction was that I needed to talk to my doctor and see what you think, because I was afraid," says Kathy Вт, 26. BT plans to begin shipping their first child on December 15. "Of course, advised not to get involved.

Although no guarantees, says Watts, he said he was not test pregnant women showed that an H1N1 vaccine "completely safe". As McGowan, he said that the amount of time to be first in line for him. Watts enrolled in Vanderbilt University, where he works in development and relationships with students.

Kathryn Edwards, professor of paediatrics, which oversees the process of pregnancy H1N1 in Vanderbilt, said, "We knew a long time," Garden variety of seasonal flu increases the risk of hospital during the last three months, four or five times.

However, he said, only 15% of pregnant women get the vaccine against seasonal flu. "A very positive aspect of H1N1 pandemic could be all that people are a little" more comfortable getting the vaccine against seasonal flu.