Pregnant women who received the flu vaccine, actually passed along the flu antibodies to their unborn babies, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
A U.S. study has shown that infants are protected from influenza during their first six months of life. Moreover, this prenatal vaccination would also reduce virus-related hospitalizations by about 40 per cent.
The project director Angelia Eick, of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Maryland, and her team studied 1169 pregnant women. All completed a health questionnaire, and 160 underwent blood tests along with their infants.
The information is significant since pregnant women are more likely to experience complications if they are infected with seasonal virus.