Educate When to Use Antivirals for Influenza
January 2018
An uptick in influenza activity will pique interest in the efficacy of the flu vaccine and when to use antivirals for treatment.
This season is expected to be worse than usual...partly because the vaccine is not a good match with the A/H3N2 strain that's circulating now.
Early predictions suggest that the efficacy of the current flu vaccines in Canada will be low...less than 40% against the H3N2 strain.
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