Preventing seasonal influenza worldwide through vaccination, education, and international cooperation: research, findings, and recommendations from the Global Influenza Initiative

摘要

This supplement to IORV, dedicated to the Global InfluenzaInitiative (GII) and associated research, covers many of thekey challenges involved in influenza disease prevention,management, and treatment. This supplement shares thelatest data and current thinking on a range of issuesincluding epidemiology and burden of disease, case definitions,vaccination of pregnant women, and the potentialpublic health impact of quadrivalent influenza vaccines(QIV) versus trivalent influenza vaccines (TIV).