Half Dose of H1N1 Vaccination May Be Enough to Protect Children
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According to a report from Canada’s Vancouver Sun just a single half dose of the H1N1 vaccination may be enough to protect children from age three to age nine from the disease. Which is good news for parents who may be anxious over waiting in line for the second shot of the vaccination.
This does raise some concerns with how quickly the vaccine was rushed though. However understandable the reasons behind the rush, and media frenzy, people concerns are valid.
The primary concern is still for the health and wellbeing of the population, in a statement the WHO (World Health Organization) had the following to say:
Based on what’s known so far, children and young adults have the highest rates of H1N1, and health officials in the United States warned on Thursday that the pediatric death toll from the pandemic could be much greater than what is normally seen with seasonal flu.
Against that backdrop, the World Health Organization has issued new guidelines that could push wider use of flu drugs in children and adults to keep H1N1 infections from progressing to more severe or fatal disease.
The primary concern is not essentially the flu itself, it is the other issues that can present in some people. The cost of health problems and other pre-existing issues in patients are the primary cause for deaths from the H1N1 flu.
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