Vaccination: Influenza crisis warning for pregnant women

Less than one fifth of the healthy pregnant women in Scotland offered winter flu jab have adopted vaccination, it emerged yesterday as doctors, warns that "major influenza crisis is brewing. Figures show this vaccine uptake of influenza in General for Scotland is a bit higher than the same time last year, 69%-65s, comparison of 68.9%.

-65s in at-risk groups, such as those with chronic diseases is

slightly lower at 45% compared to 46%.

But Jim McMenamin, flu lead programme of health protection in Scotland, said absorption of the vaccine influenza in healthy pregnant women, at the time stood just 18.9%.

Therefore, the case of Morrison's Ashleigh, who is seriously ill with influenza in Crosshouse hospital in equations, after having given birth as last weekend. Last night her condition described as critical, but stable.

Uptake of the vaccine influenza in pregnant women with conditions such as asthma risk around 44% but fell to less than 20% in those who are healthy.

DR. McMenamin said authorities are keen to promote more pregnant women to adopt influenza vaccine to protect them and their babies.

"The last thing we want is for anyone to come cropper influenza and we know that maximise the uptake in this group is something we are to succeed," he said. British Medical Association in England yesterday expresses to absorb the vaccine and the doctors are "deep crisis in the great influenza is zaparvane this winter.

Chief Medical Officer Dr. Harry Burns said, "we should underestimate seasonal flu-is a very serious illness. I urge anyone who has the right to receive an influenza vaccine to get one as soon as possible. "

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Doctors encouraged pregnant to get influenza vaccine

Approximately twice more pregnant as usual has flu year during pandemic influenza H1N1, most because their doctors urged them to do this, the Federal Government researchers reported on Thursday.

But still only about half of pregnant women during the flu season has immunized, even though they are much more likely to be seriously ill, die or lose their babies if they come down with the flu, I found the u.s. Centers for disease control and prevention.

Ironically, many of the women who don't have flu said they were afraid of their own health or the health of their babies, CDC found.

The American College of Obstetricians and gynaecologists and CDC's Advisory Committee on immunization practices much strongly recommend that pregnant women get influenza vaccination to protect themselves and their babies.

But historically, only 24 percent of those pregnant during flu season 2007-2008 has vaccinated and only 11 percent made next year.

During the pandemic flu, almost all United States was advised to achieve two vaccines-the seasonal flu shot and a separate H1N1 influenza.

Pregnant women were, as usual, named as a priority group – especially after early information suggested that pregnant women were especially susceptible to H1N1.

CDC researchers looked for searches of over 16000 pregnant in 10 States.

They found that, in these 10 States, only 50% of pregnant women received a seasonal influenza vaccine and 46 percent have a flu vaccine.

More than 60 percent of pregnant women whose doctors recommended the H1N1 vaccine got one, against just under 6% who said that they don't have offered one. More than 67 percent said that their physicians offered a seasonal vaccine and 75 percent were offered H1N1.

"With a new virus, 2009 H1N1, the role of health care providers in reassure pregnant women could have been critical because of concerns of patients with the new vaccine," the CDC wrote in its weekly report on death and disease.

"2290 Women who received the 2009 H1N1 vaccination, 50.9% reported receiving it in the Office of your Gynecologist/obstetrician and 25.7 percent received a health department or Community clinic," the report adds.

Women who did not obtain a H1N1 vaccine, more than 60 percent said they were concerned about their own safety or that of their unborn babies.

U.s. health Officials are struggling to understand why Americans in general get flu shots. The CDC estimates that nearly all the doses of seasonal flu vaccine has used 115 million last season, but doses of H1N1 flu 162 million distributed, only 80 million were used.

In March, researchers reported that pregnant women in Australia and New Zealand who had H1N1 flu pandemic were 13 times more likely to become critically ill and admitted to hospitals.

In October, a study confirmed that newborn babies whose mothers have a flu shot during pregnancy, were less likely to get the flu or be admitted to hospital with a respiratory disease in the first six months of life.

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