May 21, 2013

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Pregnant woman and flu shots

The report in today's New England Journal of Medicine supports the CDC’s recommendation that moms-to-be should get the jab. Infants under six months should not be vaccinated.

Doctors tracked more than 600 Bangladeshi moms for the study. They found babies born to vaccinated mothers had a 63 percent lower flu risk.