UNIVERSAL FLU JAB PROGRAMMES WORK SAYS CANADIAN RESEARCH
January 1st, 2009
BY MONICA DOBIE
A STUDY on a groundbreaking universal influenza immunisation programme in Ontario has concluded that mass flu shots dramatically reduce mortality rates and health care costs.
The research published in US-based Public Library of Science compiled hospital data from 1997-2004 from all provinces in Canada. It found that from the year 2000, when Ontario began its universal flu vaccination programme, influenza-associated deaths decreased by 74% in Ontario but by only 57% in the other provinces combined. It suggests that Ontario's programme averts 300 ...
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