Health Tip: Protect Your Child From Flu
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(HealthDay News) - Children are in constant contact with germs, and can easily spread them to others. Flu is a particularly nasty nemesis, but it can be prevented.
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The sudden shortage of flu vaccine has raised questions about how people can protect themselves during the coming flu season. USA Today reporter Anita Manning asked infectious disease experts for advice.
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HONG KONG : Two more children have come down with fever and symptoms of respiratory infections in a hospital where an outbreak of flu has claimed one life and stricken another 33.
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Midway through the month when influenza typically peaks, health officials were monitoring four hospitalized Nebraska children, while three North Carolina schools remained closed over widespread symptoms of the illness. And in Oklahoma, 400 students were out sick with the flu, though no schools were closed, authorities said.
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Last year over 36,000 Americans died from exposure to the flu, and of those, more than 32,000 were 65 years of age or older. Another 200,000 people were hospitalized with symptoms of the illness.
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WASHINGTON - Of the Americans who most need a flu shot, fewer than half actually get one, federal health officials warned Thursday as they called for special attention to babies, toddlers and the elderly as vaccinations begin next month.    A record 100 million doses of flu vaccine will be available this year, the vast majority of it shipped to doctors' offices by the end of October, said Dr...
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FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- With the start of the school year, parents need to take steps to protect their children from allergy and asthma triggers they may encounter at school.
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Long lines have formed at flu clinics held in retail stores, and others are being canceled for lack of flu vaccine. The unexpected vaccine shortage has raised many questions about how people can best protect themselves.
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NEW YORK  - During last year's influenza season, the number of infants and toddlers in the US who were vaccinated against the flu varied by tenfold between different locations, according to a new report.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Children as young as 2 years old can be given the nasal spray influenza vaccine FluMist, U.S. vaccine advisers recommended Wednesday.
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ATLANTA -- Children with asthma should get flu shots to protect them, but only 3 in 10 do, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
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Nine children have died of flu this  season in Alabama, an unusually high number that has some  experts worried, a pediatrician said on Thursday.
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While the flu has gotten all the publicity, thanks to the unexpected shortage of this year's vaccine, influenza is just one of many diseases that pounce during the winter months. So even if you do get a flu shot this year, it will protect you against only a limited number of infections.
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MedImmune's FluMist nasal vaccine should be included in the U.S. government's Vaccines for Children program, expanding its distribution to children over the age of 5 and teens, federal advisers said on Thursday.
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MedImmune has cleared a significant hurdle to revive its long-troubled nasal flu vaccine, announcing yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved FluMist for children 2 to 5 years old.
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WASHINGTON - Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation's first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will take months to brew a vaccine, say government preparations for the next pandemic.    Specialists say it's only a matter of time before the next one strikes, and concern is rising that the recurring bird flu in Asia could be the trigger if it mutates in a way that lets it spread easily among people...
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U.S. health officials said on Wednesday they approved the Flumist nasal spray influenza vaccine for children between ages 2 and 5.