Flu vaccine not associated with reduced hospitalizations or outpatient visits among young children
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 16:21
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 a report in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.