Flu Vaccine Not Associated With Reduced Hospitalizations Or Outpatient Visits Among Young Children

Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 17:14 in Health & Medicine

Use of the influenza vaccine was not associated with preventing hospitalizations or reducing physician visits for the flu in children age 5 and younger during two recent seasons, perhaps because the strains of virus in the vaccine did not match circulating strains, according to new report.

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