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75 Percent of U.S. Children Who Die From Flu Are Unvaccinated

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Seasonal flu vaccination could have prevented about two-thirds of the pediatric flu deaths that occurred between 2010 and 2014, according to a new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During the time period of the study, 358 U.S. children died of confirmed influenza infection; only one-quarter of them had received their yearly flu shot. On average, flu vaccinations prevented flu in two-thirds of children during these years, and reduced deaths from flu in high-risk children by half.

Mississippi State Department of Public Health

 

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