Safety of Trivalent Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Children 6 to 23 Months Old
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- 25 October 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 296 (16) , 1990-1997
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.296.16.1990
Abstract
Influenza is a leading vaccine-preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Children younger than 2 years experience higher morbidity from influenza than any other age group except individuals older than 65 years.1-4 Although the case-fatality rate in young children with influenza is not as high as in the elderly, hospitalization rates from severe illness are as high as 3 per 1000 children 6 to 23 months old and as high as 9 per 1000 children younger than 6 months.5 Furthermore, among young children with influenza, outpatient visits to a clinic or emergency department (ED) are 10 to 250 times as common as hospitalizations.6Keywords
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