January 24, 2006 - Flu Shots for Toddlers Not Backed by Evidence -
Health Behavior News Service via Newswise via
http://interestalert.com- "Furthermore, the reviewers "found no
evidence to back up the claims that the vaccines prevent deaths from
influenza or other serious complications," said coauthor Dr. Tom
Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration vaccine program. Nearly three
dozen studies on vaccine safety followed a similar pattern. "We were
astonished to find only one safety study of inactivated vaccine in
children under 2 years; that was carried out nearly 30 years ago and
only in 35 children," say the review authors."
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Epidemiol Infect. 2006 Feb;134(1):63-70.
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