tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Koln DPA - doctors advise to let inoculate children and youngsters against pork influenza. Since the number of the illnesses increases clearly. Besides, a 6-year-old girl who was infected with the pork influenza-virus had died on Tuesday Doctors ask to inoculate children and youngsters. the professional organization the paediatrician and youth doctors BVKJ has made itself strong for the seasonal influenza protective inoculation with young people. In view of a clear increase of the illnesses by the H1N1 virus pork influenza the influenza vaccination is advisable for children and youngsters, one says in a press release. Just with persons under age an infection with the H1N1 virus can lead more often to heavy illnesses. The influenza vaccine "Pandemrix" is admitted for children from the perfect sixth life month. Therefore, children and youngsters who could be already inoculated during the past twelve months would not need to protect themselves once more.
On the climax of the influenza wave is to be calculated in February. * Before became known that a 6-year-old girl with the pork influenza-virus is in Cologne has died. As a speaker of the clinics of the town confirmed on Tuesday (11th January), the girl had been treated in the local child hospital intensive-medically. Whether because of the pork influenza-Virus' or because of another illness, was not known. The course of the illness has been so heavy that the child died during the day after the admission on the week-end. The H1N1 virus was proved with the child. Whether the pork influenza was the cause of death, the autopsy must point. In the Essener university clinic a 57-year-old man infected with the virus who was handicapped, however, by a heavy lung illness died meanwhile.
http://www.ka-news.de/ratgeber/gesu...-Kinderaerzte-raten-zur-Impfung;art333,542219
On the climax of the influenza wave is to be calculated in February. * Before became known that a 6-year-old girl with the pork influenza-virus is in Cologne has died. As a speaker of the clinics of the town confirmed on Tuesday (11th January), the girl had been treated in the local child hospital intensive-medically. Whether because of the pork influenza-Virus' or because of another illness, was not known. The course of the illness has been so heavy that the child died during the day after the admission on the week-end. The H1N1 virus was proved with the child. Whether the pork influenza was the cause of death, the autopsy must point. In the Essener university clinic a 57-year-old man infected with the virus who was handicapped, however, by a heavy lung illness died meanwhile.
http://www.ka-news.de/ratgeber/gesu...-Kinderaerzte-raten-zur-Impfung;art333,542219