CDC Urges Flu Vaccination for Young Children
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Contributed by Ron Gara| 26 September, 2004 01:00 GMT
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report urgently recommending flu vaccines for children aged 6-23 months. Only 4% of U.S. children in that age group were fully vaccinated against influenza in 2002-2003, the report says, and only 7.4% had received even one dose.
"Too few young children are protected against influenza, which for this age group, can be a very serious illness, |
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