PREGNANT women are at the front of the queue for swine flu vaccine as distribution starts this month in the US, UK and elsewhere. It is well known that their suppressed immunity puts them at greater risk; less widely recognised is the evidence that flu can harm their babies.
Caleb Finch of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and his colleagues report that men who were in their mother’s womb during the September peak of the 1918 flu pandemic have been 23 per cent more likely to have had heart attacks since they turned 60 than siblings who…
