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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159:596.

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In May 2004, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended universal influenza vaccination for children aged 6 to 23 months.¹ However, as shown by Humiston et al² in a recent issue of the ARCHIVES and Daley et al,³ costs, lack of immunization clinics, and limits of recall systems are barriers to widespread vaccination, even for children with medical conditions that require influenza vaccination.

In Italy, vaccinations are administered in public vaccination centers. However, despite specific facilities, immunization rates for influenza are less than 5% of the overall pediatric population and less than 10% for children with specific risk factors for whom vaccination is highly recommended.⁴

At the beginning of the 2003 influenza season, experts from authoritative medical organizations and scientific societies, interviewed by the mass media as to the need to vaccinate children, gave inconsistent and conflicting opinions on the opportunity of extending vaccination to healthy children. On the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Giulio De Marco, MD; Dario Ummarino; Eleonora Giannetti; Teresa Magurno, MD; Alfredo Guarino, MD

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