Do you find it unnecessary to vaccinate your child against the flu? However, this would reduce mortality from complications of this disease by 25%. Review Vaccinated has just published the summary of a scientific conference on the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine policy. According to the figures, France could prevent 450 flu-related deaths per year by encouraging vaccination in children and young adults.
Indeed, even if the elderly and frail are more likely than the young to succumb to the consequences of the disease, vaccinating the youngest, who are often more often infected, would break the chain of influenza transmission and thus protect the weakest. Basically, vaccinating your child would be an altruistic gesture intended to save other lives.
Current French policy, however, does not go in this direction. The vaccine is only recommended for people over 65, pregnant women, people with respiratory diseases, heart disease, diabetes or people with immunodeficiency. Despite this advice, the flu vaccine is not popular among the French, who are wary of it while downplaying the dangerousness of seasonal or pandemic flu. Efforts remain to be made.
