Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Issues New Report to Help Improve Low Childhood Influenza Immuniza...(our nation are vulnerable to influenzain...),Health

Date:10/15/2007

our nation are vulnerable to influenza infection every year because they are not vaccinated. Our Coalition initiatives provide parents and health care professionals with important information to encourage the vaccination of children and their close contacts," said Coalition Chair, Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006), President of Canyon Ranch Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health, The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. "More information about influenza immunization, including the new Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Report, is available at http://www.PreventChildhoodInfluenza.org."

The Coalition Report illustrates the considerable impact of influenza, with deaths occurring in children of all ages. In addition, it found that multifaceted approaches are needed to increase childhood immunization rates. Two key findings include offering influenza vaccinations at all medical visits and broadening the vaccination period. Health care professionals and parents/guardians need to "re-think" the traditional immunization season by seeking and giving vaccination as soon as the vaccine is available in their communities and using every opportunity to get vaccinated throughout the fall and winter months, well beyond the New Year.

"The Coalition Report shows that influenza infection rates are highest among children and that each year this serious disease causes more than 20,000 hospitalizations and nearly 100 deaths in American children younger than 5 years of age," said Coalition Moderator, Carol J. Baker, M.D., FAAP, FIDSA, President of NFID and Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine.

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