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Kids' Flu Shot Largely Ineffective Over Past Few Years
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 The overall risk to an individual child is still very low, "but it's an important message to say even healthy children develop complications and die almost before anything much can be done for them," one vaccine specialist, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Gregory Poland, told the Associated Press.
Schaffner stressed that vaccination is still important, but he agreed with Belshe that the nasal spray vaccine is better for children.
"The nasal spray vaccine provides broader protection against influenza virus variants than does the injectable vaccine," Schaffner said. "There are many of us who would like to see more children vaccinated and more nasal spray vaccine used. Any vaccine is better than none. Nasal spray vaccine should be used more frequently."
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Last updated 10/6/2008
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SOURCES: Robert Belshe, M.D., professor, medicine and pediatrics, and director, Center for Vaccine Development, Saint Louis University Medical Center, St. Louis, Mo.; William Schaffner, M.D., department chairman, division of infectious disease, professor of preventive medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn; October 2008, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine; Oct. 6, 2008, Associated Press
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