Realizing the Potential of Maternal Influenza Vaccination.

The author discusses a study by A. Mehrabadi and colleagues, published within the issue on the risks of a broad range of adverse health outcomes among offspring of mothers vaccinated with inactivated influenza vaccines. Topics include effect of physiological changes during pregnancy on the risk for influenza complications in pregnant women, benefits of maternal influenza vaccination, and the need for more research to understand barriers to adoption of maternal influenza vaccination.