Repeat flu vaccinations don’t hurt kids and might help boost immunity, study finds
Getting repeated flu vaccines year after year doesn’t reduce their effectiveness in children and, in fact, may boost immunity against some influenza strains, researchers reported Friday.
Their findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, should reassure parents and doctors worried after reports suggested getting vaccines every year might reduce immunity.
The new study of more than 3,000 children found that kids who were vaccinated every year were less likely to get flu than unvaccinated kids. The multiple vaccinations tended to boost protection against one common flu strain: influenza B.
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on Oct 30 2018. Filed under Health, News at Now, News From Roots.
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