The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices have recommended that you (and your kids) should avoid using the CSL vaccine in children ages 6 months through 8 years. The AP article states:
“Committee members were concerned about the unexplained higher rate of fevers and related seizures seen in young children who got the vaccine earlier this year in Australia and New Zealand. In kids under 5, the rates were roughly 10 times that of other flu vaccines. No deaths have been linked to the problem.
The panel said the vaccine could be used in children older than 5 if they were at greater risk of flu complications and no other vaccine was available.
The committee provides vaccine advice to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which usually adopts its recommendations and sends the advice to doctors and the public.”
The full article is here.
