Dutch scientists suggest children skip flu vax this year

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Dutch scientists made a controversial suggestion Friday that children might be better off skipping the seasonal flu vaccine this year - a proposal flatly rejected by other health experts.

In the opinion piece, Guus Rimmelzwaan of Erasmus University and his colleagues suggested that health authorities reevaluate the recommendation by countries like the U.S. and Canada to give all healthy children between 6 months and 5 years old a flu shot. The World Health Organization recommends that healthy children under 2 get a flu shot.

The theory is that children infected with seasonal flu acquire a certain kind of immunity that might protect them against new flu outbreaks like swine flu or bird flu.http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MED_SWINE_FLU_VACCINE_CONTROVERSY?SITE=KOPB & SECTION=HOME & TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Oct 29, 8:02 PM EDTHealth experts: Kids should get seasonal flu shot By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer

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