Via Google News, Helen Branswell of The Canadian Press writes: Single H1N1 shot sufficient, pregnant women can use adjuvanted vaccine: WHO. As usual, Branswell helps to clarify some confusing points. Excerpt:
A single dose of H1N1 vaccine should be adequate for all age groups, even very young children, and pregnant women should feel free to use vaccine containing adjuvant, an expert committee that advises the World Health Organization on vaccine issues reported Friday.
The group, known by the acronym SAGE, said vaccines containing boosting additives called adjuvants and vaccines that are adjuvant-free appear to be equally safe and there is no need to recommend pregnant women get the latter on a preferential basis.
"This is based on the fact that the safety profiles of adjuvanted vaccine and the non-adjuvanted vaccine are very similar, and the fact that the non-adjuvanted vaccine has been recommended for pregnant women for many, many years," Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, director of the WHO's initiative for vaccine research, said in reporting on the recommendations of the panel.
