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Flu Vaccination of Day-Care Kids Protects Whole Family
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 26th, 1998
The study found that influenza vaccination of day-care kids reduced respiratory disease in other family members.
"The benefits of vaccinating day-care children extends to other family members, particularly school-aged children, and should be evaluated in future studies of influenza vaccine," noted CDC researcher E.S. Hurwitz.
Hurwitz reported the study findings in a late-breaker session of the American Society for Microbiology's 38th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and...
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