Vaccinate all school children against flu: experts - Telegraph

Vaccinate all school children against flu: experts

All children should be vaccinated against flu from the age of five to stop them spreading the illness among their families, government advisers have said.

All children should be vaccinated against flu because they are 'super-spreaders' who infect the rest of the family, experts have said.

Children already receive 12 jabs against eight diseases by the time they start school Photo: Alamy

Under the plans a new universial vaccination programme could start in the autumn of 2014 with a nasal spray vaccine, called Fluenz, that avoids the use of needles.

Schoolchildren from the age of five would be vaccinated every year. Currently only children with serious long-term illnesses are given the seasonal flu jab.

A panel of independent experts which advises the government believes the move could save lives and stop flu spreading through the general population.

The panel is in the final stages of evaluating research on vaccinating schoolchildren before formally recommending the expansion of the programme.

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Comment by DTOM on May 30, 2012 at 8:35am: Free advertising for Big Pharma in Rupert Murdoch's rag, money in the pockets of the corrupt rats in Westminster and an entire generation of innocents poisoned by a live virus vaccine without their consent.

This from the FLUENZ product insert:

http://ec.europa.eu/health/documents/community-register/2011/201101...

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'FLUENZ should not be administered to children and adolescents with severe asthma or activewheezing because these individuals have not been adequately studied in clinical studies.Do not administer FLUENZ to infants and toddlers younger than 12 months. In a clinical study, anincrease in hospitalisations was observed in infants and toddlers younger than 12 months aftervaccination (see section 4.8). It is not recommended to administer FLUENZ to infants and toddlers12-23 months of age. In a clinical study, an increased rate of wheezing was observed in infants andtoddlers 12-23 months of age after vaccination (see section 4.8).Vaccine recipients should be informed that FLUENZ is an attenuated live virus vaccine and has thepotential for transmission to immunocompromised contacts. Vaccine recipients should attempt toavoid, whenever possible, close association with severely immunocompromised individuals (e.g. bonemarrow transplant recipients requiring isolation) for 1-2 weeks following vaccination. Peak incidenceof vaccine virus recovery occurred 2-3 days post-vaccination in clinical studies. In circumstanceswhere contact with severely immunocompromised individuals is unavoidable, the potential risk oftransmission of the influenza vaccine virus should be weighed against the risk of acquiring andtransmitting wild-type influenza virus.

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FUCKING INSANITY!