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Effect of expanded recommendations for pediatric seasonal influenza vaccination: an international comparison
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Seasonal influenza epidemics are responsible for over 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States per year, and 39,000 of them are in children. In the United States, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides… read more… AG Hoen et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 36 part to infection rates averaging … reaction. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004;23:S11–18. 2 Thompson WW, Shay DK, Weintraub E, Brammer L, Bridges CB, Cox NJ, et al. Influenza-associated hospitalizations in the … -
Can all-cause school absenteeism be used to optimize the timing of school closure in response to pandemic influenza?
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School closure has long been proposed as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in reducing the transmission of pandemic influenza. Children are thought to have high transmission potential because of their low immunity to circulating… read more… Egger et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 26 and threshold levels in absenteeism … Health Threats Journal JR Egger et al. 2011, 4:s78 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 27 …