H1N1 2009 pandemic flu vaccination campaign: The Homeless lesson | Zendy

Philippe Brouqui | Zendy; JeanChristophe Lagier | Zendy; Nadim Cassir | Zendy; Sékéné Badiaga | Zendy; Hans Gadelius | Zendy

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H1N1 2009 pandemic flu vaccination campaign: The Homeless lesson

Author(s) -

Philippe Brouqui,

JeanChristophe Lagier,

Nadim Cassir,

Sékéné Badiaga,

Hans Gadelius

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

plos currents

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282

H-Index - 49

ISSN - 2157-3999

DOI - 10.1371/currents.rrn1146

Subject(s) - pandemic , vaccination , medicine , covid-19 , environmental health , live attenuated influenza vaccine , population , human mortality from h5n1 , influenza vaccine , virology , medical emergency , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , disease , pathology

Homeless are deprived people of developed countries that have a particularly low vaccine coverage and are exposed to vaccine preventable infectious diseases. We report here the efficiency of a voluntary based one-day snapshot influenza vaccination in homeless shelter of Marseille, France, which allowed to obtain a 46.9% H1N1 pandemic vaccine coverage while at the same time only 6% of the French population has been vaccinated.

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