Get Up And Do Something: It's Not Too Late to Get a Flu Shot

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It's Not Too Late to Get a Flu Shot Jan 14th 2013, 11:47 There is still time to protect your children and yourself from the flu in what remains of a severe influenza season. "Everyone seems to know that the elderly are particularly vulnerable, but so too are children," says William Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D., a pediatrician at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). "Severe complications are most common in children under age 2, and all children ages 6 months and older should be immunized." Rodriguez notes that in each of the last 10 flu seasons, between 43 and 153 children died from influenza in the U.S. An average 20,000 children a year under age 5 are hospitalized. So far this year, 16 deaths of children under age 18 have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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