{"title":"Influenza vaccination of UK Armed Forces personnel, a waste of resources or an essential public health measure?","authors":"Mark Dermont, T Elmer","doi":"10.1136/jramc-2019-001176","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Most of us who have experienced it can recall the debilitating impacts of true influenza infection down to the number of days spent prostrate in bed feeling thoroughly miserable. Yet anywhere between 30% and 50% of infected cases remain asymptomatic and most otherwise healthy adults recover within a","PeriodicalId":17327,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps","volume":"165 6","pages":"390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1136/jramc-2019-001176","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2019-001176","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2019/3/5 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Most of us who have experienced it can recall the debilitating impacts of true influenza infection down to the number of days spent prostrate in bed feeling thoroughly miserable. Yet anywhere between 30% and 50% of infected cases remain asymptomatic and most otherwise healthy adults recover within a
期刊介绍:
The Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps aims to publish high quality research, reviews and case reports, as well as other invited articles, which pertain to the practice of military medicine in its broadest sense. It welcomes material from all ranks, services and corps wherever they serve as well as submissions from beyond the military. It is intended not only to propagate current knowledge and expertise but also to act as an institutional memory for the practice of medicine within the military.