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By Gene Emery

NEW YORK |
Wed Jan 16, 2013 5:46pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Getting a influenza vaccine while profound does not boost a contingency that a fetus will die in a womb, according to a new investigate of tens of thousands of women in Norway.

Although fetal deaths were singular during a study, they were some-more common in profound women with a flu.

“Vaccination itself was not compared with increasing fetal mankind and might have reduced a risk of influenza-related genocide during a pandemic” of 2009, pronounced a team, led by Dr. Siri Haberg of a Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo.

Dr. Jon Abramson of a Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina, who was not connected with a research, pronounced it was already famous that influenza can be scarcely dangerous in profound women.

“The increasing hospitalization rate is about fourfold aloft among profound women compared to women of a identical age who are not pregnant,” he told Reuters Health.

With some exceptions, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends a influenza shot for everybody over 6 months of age, including profound women.

Abramson called vaccination “a double crash for your buck.”

The study, that appears online in a New England Journal of Medicine, encompassed a H1N1 pestilence in a tumble and early winter of 2009 and took place after broadside about some-more than 30 cases of fetal genocide following vaccination.

Up until then, profound women in Norway were not customarily suggested to get a influenza vaccine. During a pandemic, as most as 30 percent of a Norwegian race fell ill with a flu.

The vaccine was offering commencement on Oct 19, 2009 and was customarily given during a second and third trimester.

The vaccine wasn’t foolproof, though it cut a woman’s risk of building influenza by 70 percent.

Among scarcely 26,000 women vaccinated during pregnancy – customarily during a second or third trimester – there were 78 fetal deaths, or 3 per 1,000 pregnancies. Among about 87,000 profound women who were not vaccinated, there were 414 fetal deaths, or tighten to 5 per 1,000 pregnancies.

When a researchers focused on a women who grown a flu, a risk of losing their child to miscarriage or stillbirth was roughly double that of those who had not been vaccinated.

Among all women, vaccination during a investigate duration reduced a odds of fetal genocide by 12 percent, though that disproportion could be due to chance, a researchers said.

The researchers also found no justification that vaccination increasing a risk of beforehand smoothness or carrying a baby with a low birth weight.

“We found no justification that influenza vaccination of profound women increasing a risk of fetal death,” a researchers said. “However, influenza infection itself acted a vital risk; among profound women who perceived a clinical diagnosis of influenza, a risk of fetal genocide scarcely doubled.”

Smaller studies in Canada and Denmark have constructed identical results.

“Because of all these ascent pieces of justification about a outcome of influenza on profound women, a World Health Organization in a final year indeed endorsed that a series one priority for removing a influenza vaccine is profound women, pestilence or not,” Abramson said.

SOURCE: bit.ly/13ExDIB New England Journal of Medicine, Jan 17, 2013.