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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