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Influenza:
The
Disease & The Vaccine
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/22/AR2005102200042.html
THE WASHINGTON POST
Tuesday, October 25, 2005; Page HE01
A Shot of Fear
Flu Death Risk Often Exaggerated; So Is Benefit of Vaccine
By Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz and H.
Gilbert Welch
Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to
appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series
dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems
we see as physician-researchers and show how the research community, medical
journals and the media can do better.
For years, the public health community has used
fear as one strategy to
promote the flu vaccine. A vaccination poster distributed by the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for example, emphasizes
that "36,000 Americans die of flu-related illnesses each year,"
implying
that the vaccine could prevent many of these deaths.
When it became aware of the vaccine shortage last
October, the federal
government changed course and tried to reassure Americans that going without
a shot was no big deal. "We all need to take a deep breath. This
is not an
emergency," CDC director Julie Gerberding advised the public.
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