Influenza vaccine uptake among British Muslims attending Hajj, 2005 and 2006
- 7 December 2006
- Vol. 333 (7580) , 1220.1-1220
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39051.734329.3a
Abstract
Footnotes Funding: This work was supported from a Department of Health grant. We thank British Hajj Delegation team, European Hajj Mission and the GPs for help with the data collection and staff at HPA laboratory, London & Respiratory Virus Unit, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections, London, for performing the PCR tests. Ethical Approval Multicentre Research Ethics Committee, UK (MREC 02/2/12). Competing interests Roche supplied free courses of Tamiflu for treatment of pilgrims with influenza infection on near-patient testing. SS served as Chair, Health and Medical Committee of the Muslim Council of Britain (until August 2006)Keywords
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