The Flu Vaccine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Not a Great Pairing When It Comes to Increasing Vaccine Uptake : aappublications

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The Flu Vaccine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Not a Great Pairing When It Comes to Increasing Vaccine Uptake

The Flu Vaccine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Not a Great Pairing When It Comes to Increasing Vaccine Uptake

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is an area we all need to appreciate and learn about as much as we can—since prior studies in our journal and others show families turning to CAM for their children more than one might expect.When we do learn about the risks and benefits of a particular CAM therapy, we should be looking for the strength of evidence of that therapy to determine if it is safe to use in our patients.Sadly even when we do this, we may not be appreciating the secondary risks of CAM in regard to families becoming more hesitant to usemore conventional evidence-based therapies—vaccination being one of them.


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'Sporadic' Flu Activity Reported in Virginia; Flu Nasal Mist Vaccine Not Available This Year

'Sporadic' Flu Activity Reported in Virginia; Flu Nasal Mist Vaccine Not Available This Year

Virginia is reporting "sporadic" flu activity across the Commonwealth last week, the first week the Department of Health began tracking flu activity across the state."VDH does not have a way to track individual cases of influenza in Virginia," said spokesman Matthew Lipani, per Diane Woolard director of VDH's Division of Surveillance and Investigation."We use a combination of lab reports, outbreak reports, and visits to emergency departments/urgent care centers for influenza-like illness to establish an influenza activity level each week," said Lipani.


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Here's Why People Avoid The Flu Vaccine

Here's Why People Avoid The Flu Vaccine

ADVERTISEMENTBy now Canadians should be seeing the annual promotions from public health officials for the flu vaccine.With winter on its way, various flu viruses will be making their way across our borders and into the respiratory tracts of millions.However, despite the advertisements, only about one-third of us will actually seek the shot.