Pregnant women avoiding swine flu inoculation
Filed under: Baby public health — Alan @ 5:57 am
Despite fears over the swine flu many people are still too wary of the vaccine in order to take preventative measures a new survey of family doctors shows.
The survey showed that out of the patients of 107 GPs only 45% of those offered the vaccine decided to take it which includes those with chronic conditions and pregnant women both of whom belong in the high risk groups.
Pregnant woman were the least likely to accept the vaccine. Some respondents to the Pulse survey stated that they were worried about what the side effects of the vaccine may be, while other respondents said that they were not worried about the swine flu since most people who get it only suffer moderately.
Since September the amount of people infected with swine flu has risen at a much slower rate than expected, and the infection rate has now levelled off with about 64,000 new infections per week in Britain. This is just slightly above the regular flu infection rate.
In an effort to inform pregnant woman of the dangers of the swine flu the government released leaflets that were given to the group informing them that they are especially vulnerable to swine flu. However, doctors said that the leaflets did not seem to have much of an influence as GPs such as Dr. Chris Udenze found that pregnant woman are sceptical about the threat to their unborn babies.
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