Pediatrics

Day-Care Children Run Greater Risk of Infections

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 27th, 1995

Children under the age of two, in large day-care centers, are 36 times more likely than stay-at-home children to catch pneumococcal infections, a leading cause of earaches, pneumonia and meningitis, Finnish researchers reported.

The risk of such infections was much less in smaller, family day-care centers, but it still was 4.4 times greater than at home, the researchers said in the March 15, 1995, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Pneumococcal germs are common even in healthy children, and experts speculated that the risk of infection increases when more youngsters are thrown together.

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