Should Meningitis Vaccines Be Used On Infants?
Should Meningitis Vaccines Be Used On Infants?
Meningitis shots not recommended to children under 5; some parents are upset about the rule.
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" Right now with the CDC only recommends a bacterial meningitis vaccine beginning at age eleven. That's to help prevent the disease in teenagers and there are about 250 cases every year. Yet there's a similar number in children under the age of five but the shots aren't recommended for them unless they have special risk factors for the disease."
" I don't want what happened to myself it's happened and you now."
" The mantra -- baby died of meningitis just six weeks. After being born today she attended the public hearing in Chicago to urged the CDC to make the new vaccine a part of every baby -- One of the vaccine is called Mednax. It's been approved for nine month old by the FDA but not yet by the CDC a major sticking point money. -- won't be able to. It may cost hundreds of dollars to immunize one baby a cost that for most people would be passed -- insurance companies and the government."
" There are obviously I struggled up when you think about how much you're affecting the cost compared how much -- they will prevent."
" Eighty feet pediatrician Amanda Cohen says the agency will have to balance the cost with the deadly consequences of not recommending the vaccine. Samantha -- already has an answer."
" I don't know any other parent who can look at you and say it's not. If you it's okay for your child to that because that's not okay never."
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