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The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people worldwide. In addition, its socioeconomic consequences were huge. “Spanish flu”, as the infection was dubbed, hit different age-groups, displaying a so-called “W-trend”, typically with two spikes in children and the elderly.
10 paź 2018 · The composition of Spanish Flu vaccines varied from city to city, but all targeted one or more types of bacteria isolated from victims of influenza epidemics.
5 wrz 2022 · This study aimed to assess and analyse the factors influencing willingness to receive influenza vaccines in the COVID-19 era among Spanish adults, as well as the main information channels and strategies to encourage vaccination.
4 paź 2023 · The influenza vaccine was introduced in Spain in the early 1980s . Currently, the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS) recommends influenza vaccination for those aged 65 and over and those aged 6 months or older at high risk of complications from influenza .
1 kwi 2023 · In countries with paediatric vaccination programmes (USA, Finland, and UK) the burden of influenza in children is reduced by 40%–74%, whereas 50%-93.5-% of cases presenting to the ED, hospitalised, admitted to PICU, or dying from influenza are unvaccinated.
The Spanish Flu functioned as an inflection point in the history of epidemic responses, a critical moment in the long transition from approaches dominated by traditional public health activities to those in which biomedical interventions are viewed as the most potent and promising tools in the epidemic response arsenal. Publication types.
1 wrz 2022 · The Preventive Activities and Health Promotion Programme (PAPPS for its initials in Spanish) in its 2018 edition, 4 recommends influenza vaccination for people over 60 years of age and all adults with underlying morbidities (risk groups), as the safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing the disease has been demonstrated.
