Flu shot during pregnancy is safe, but flu isn't

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347630/description/Flu_shot_during_pregnancy_is_safe_but_flu_isnt

February 23, 2013; Vol.183 #4
By Nathan Seppa

Getting the flu appears to nearly double a pregnant woman’s risk of having a miscarriage or stillbirth, data from Norway during the 2009-2010 global flu pandemic show. But getting vaccinated during pregnancy greatly reduces a woman’s risk of flu, researchers report online January 16 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study also finds that getting a flu shot during pregnancy is safe. Anecdotal reports had suggested that flu vaccination during gestation might have adverse effects on the fetus, but the new study — as well as two previous reports, from Canada and Denmark — now show no such connection.

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