Does influenza immunisation cause exacerbations of chronic airflow obstruction or asthma?

Influenza epidemics are regularly associated elderly. 10 Little difference has been reported in the symptoms observed in elderly people as a with excess mortality from respiratory, cardioresult of influenza or RSV infection. As vascular, and cerebrovascular disease and are patients who have received influenza vacassociated with increased death rates from diacination are no less likely than those unbetes and neoplasia. 1 2 Increasing age, the presvaccinated to succumb to other respiratory tract ence of certain chronic medical conditions, infections, a proportion will inevitably contract and residence in chronic care facilities are all an infection in the week or two after imassociated with increasing morbidity and mormunisation and may attribute it to the vaccine. tality from influenza. [3] 4][5] Many health authorities