Silent spreaders: study tracks hidden flu in hospitals

NCT ID NCT02868658

Summary

This study aimed to understand how often healthcare workers get the flu, both with and without symptoms. Researchers tracked 289 healthcare workers in hospitals to see how many caught the flu during the season. The goal was to measure the risk of silent transmission to patients and see if this data could help encourage more staff to get vaccinated.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Edouard Herriot Hospital; Department of Epidemiology, Hygiene and Public Health

    Lyon, 69437, France

Conditions

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