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Editorial
Published at www.nejm.org September 10, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMe0908224)

Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Policy — Considering the Early Evidence
Kathleen M. Neuzil, M.D., M.P.H.

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"Policy decisions regarding influenza rest on judgments about the behavior of the virus, the impact of the disease and our ability to interdict its course. But the virus is capricious, the disease elusive, and our remedies imperfect," said a report on the 1976 swine-flu epidemic at Fort Dix.1

Two peer-reviewed articles now publicly available at NEJM.org, by Greenberg et al. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00938639 [ClinicalTrials.gov] )2 and Clark et al. (NCT00943358 [ClinicalTrials.gov] ),3 describe preliminary data on the immunogenicity of the influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccine. These data have been eagerly anticipated, as governments, public health officials, and other stakeholders respond to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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This article (10.1056/NEJMe0908224) was published on September 10, 2009, at NEJM.org.




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