Insufficient evidence for recommending routine flu shots for healthy children between 6 and 23 months of age
The Toddler Debate
"U.S. infectious disease experts last week dismissed suggestions that there is insufficient evidence for recommending routine flu shots for healthy children between 6 and 23 months of age. A review published by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research, looked at 51 studies worldwide involving more than 250,000 children under age 16. The review uncovered few studies of children under age 2, and found that in studies of vaccines using killed virus -- the only kind approved for use in children under 5 -- shots were no more effective than placebo. The report didn't carry much weight with U.S. health experts. (...)"
Read further under: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/30/AR2006013001253_pf.html Washington Post, 31. Jan. 2006
"U.S. infectious disease experts last week dismissed suggestions that there is insufficient evidence for recommending routine flu shots for healthy children between 6 and 23 months of age. A review published by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research, looked at 51 studies worldwide involving more than 250,000 children under age 16. The review uncovered few studies of children under age 2, and found that in studies of vaccines using killed virus -- the only kind approved for use in children under 5 -- shots were no more effective than placebo. The report didn't carry much weight with U.S. health experts. (...)"
Read further under: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/30/AR2006013001253_pf.html Washington Post, 31. Jan. 2006
rudkla - 9. Mär, 15:29
