*1. Flu Vaccine Puts Kids at Risk*
Flu vaccine does not help children stricken with influenza stay out of
the hospital, but instead, increases their risk of being hospitalized,
compared with those who have not had shots, according to a new study.
In fact, the risk triples, according to the study at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn.
The new study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the flu vaccine
(trivalent inactivated flu vaccine, or TIV) in children, especially
asthmatic children, study leader Avni Joshi, M.D., told Science Daily.
The relative benefit of the vaccine is of paramount importance in light
of the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and the American Academy of Pediatrics to vaccinate all children between
6 months and 18 years every year, a recommendation that the National
Asthma Education and Prevention Program endorses.
The Mayo Clinic study spanned eight consecutive flu seasons and involved
263 children ages 6 months to 18 years. All of the children had
laboratory-confirmed influenza between 1996 and 2006. Researchers
verified which children had or had not received the vaccine, which were
asthmatics, and which had to be hospitalized with flu-related illnesses.
The study showed that children who had been vaccinated had three times
the risk of hospitalization of children who had not been vaccinated.
Asthmatic children who received the vaccine had a “significantly” higher
risk of being hospitalized than asthmatic children who had not received
it. No other factors, such as the severity of asthma, appeared to have
an effect on the risk of being hospitalized.
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