Vaccine
Volume 28, Issue 19, Pages 3265-3508 (26 April 2010)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0264410X

Characterizing the acceptability of a vaccine for West Nile virus by public health practitioners
Pages 3423-3427
Tasha Epp, Shannon Waldner, Judith Wright, Phil Curry, Hugh G. Townsend, Andrew Potte

Abstract
This study examines health care personnel’s knowledge of West Nile virus (WNv) and attitudes towards a proposed chimeric yellow fever/WNv vaccine within the province of Saskatchewan. Telephone and in-person interviews with medical health officers and public health nurses provided information with which to assess the acceptability of implementing vaccination as a component for prevention of WNv within the province with the highest number of WNv cases to date in western Canada. The majority of health care professionals felt confident in the potential efficacy of vaccination for prevention of WNv but suggested that targeted vaccination programs could be most effective.