Vaccinate the very young for flu, health officials urge
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Health officials are urging parents and doctors to vaccinate even very young children for influenza to prevent a repeat of last year&#39;s unusually high death rate among youngsters.
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Warnings of a possible worldwide flu outbreak have local health officials spreading the word: Get in early for a vaccination. County health officials say preparation is essential since the Centers
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The number of toddlers vaccinated  against influenza in the United States has jumped during the  current flu season, but fewer older Americans are lining up for  the shots, federal officials said on Thursday.
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TORONTO - Doctors should tell their healthy patients to get an annual flu shot, urges the Canadian task force on preventive health care.
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Sept. 23, 2004 -- More American children need to get the flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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By MICHELLE SPITZER     JOHNSTON, Iowa  -- Health officials are scurrying to secure flu vaccines so the elderly, who are most vulnerable to influenza, have first access to shots after the nation's supply was cut in half.    "We're begging, borrowing and stealing from every source we can come up with," said Paula Frank, a clinical consulting nurse for the Bishop Drumm Retirement Center...
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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.
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Of the Americans who most need a flu shot, fewer than half get one, federal health officials warned as they called for special attention to babies, toddlers and the elderly as vaccinations begin next month.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 23, 2004 - 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.
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A top federal health official, lamenting "a very fragile vaccine production system," urged healthy people Wednesday to defer getting their influenza shots so medication will be available for those most at risk.    "We really need a long-term solution so we don't end up in this year-to-year situation where we don't have a reliable supply," Dr...
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RUTLAND, Vt. The Vermont Health Department is going to start distributing vaccines tomorrow for children at the high risk for the flu.
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People with conditions such as asthma, and those over 65, are urged to get a flu jab to avoid falling ill this winter.
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Pointing to last year's early and  unusually harsh influenza season, U.S. health officials urged  Americans on Thursday to get their flu shots.
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Pointing to last year's early and unusually harsh influenza season, U.S. health officials urged Americans on Thursday to get their flu shots.
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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.
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With roughly 38,000 more doses of flu vaccine flowing into the state, officials are now pleading with those at risk of becoming seriously ill from the flu to get a shot.
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New research suggests that giving flu vaccine in a novel way can stretch doses and protect more people, but it didnât work as well in those over 60 and is too experimental to be used to ease this yearâs shortage, experts say.