RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The use of amantadine and influenza vaccine in a type A influenza epidemic in a boarding school
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 619
OP 621
VO 30
IS 219
A1 H. J. Rose
YR 1980
UL http://bjgp.org/content/30/219/619.abstract
AB Prophylactic immunization with the current standard vaccine failed to prevent an epidemic of type A influenza in a large boarding school. In one House 31 boys were given amantadine 100 mg daily at the start of the epidemic. None of these boys suffered influenza whereas 30 per cent of the rest of the school was confined to the sickbays. This experience with amantadine challenges the policy of routine prophylactic immunization against influenza.