Table 4 Knowledge about influenza and vaccination from 2001 to 2006 (%)
From: Trends in influenza vaccination coverage rates in Germany over five seasons from 2001 to 2006
Agree | Disagree | DK | |
|---|---|---|---|
You can catch influenza even if you are vaccinated against it | 77.1 | 18.5 | 4.4 |
If you catch influenza after having had the vaccine, the infection is less severe | 65.3 | 26.0 | 8.7 |
The side effects associated with the vaccine (fever, headache, etc.) are acceptable | 59.0 | 28.9 | 12.1 |
It is important to get the influenza vaccine each year | 56.1 | 41.8 | 2.1 |
The influenza vaccine is not useful if you are in good health | 41.6 | 55.0 | 3.4 |
If you have the vaccine you will not catch influenza | 34.4 | 61.7 | 3.9 |
The influenza vaccine will protect me in case of avian influenza/influenza pandemic (2005/06) | 27.4 | 67.0 | 5.6 |