{"id":8861,"date":"2016-09-06T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/pediatricians-recommend-flu-vaccination-just-not-with-the-spray\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T17:33:00","slug":"pediatricians-recommend-flu-vaccination-just-not-with-the-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/pediatricians-recommend-flu-vaccination-just-not-with-the-spray\/","title":{"rendered":"Pediatricians Recommend Flu Vaccination, Just Not With The Spray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/09\/06\/492829843\/pediatricians-recommend-flu-vaccination-just-not-with-the-spray?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\">Richard Harris<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/09\/06\/492829843\/pediatricians-recommend-flu-vaccination-just-not-with-the-spray?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/09\/06\/flumist_custom-943f0e9ae813dfb079dfe9f18dce7948d9267f41-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Fourth-grader Jasmine Johnson got a FluMist spray at her Annapolis, Md., elementary school in 2007. This year, the nasal spray vaccine isn&#8217;t recommended. <strong>Susan Biddle\/Washington Post\/Getty Images<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>Susan Biddle\/Washington Post\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sorry, kids. Your pediatrician will probably give you the flu vaccine in the form of a shot this year.<\/p>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics said Tuesday that it doesn&#8217;t recommend using the flu vaccine that comes as a nasal spray. That&#8217;s because the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at its performance last year and concluded it wasn&#8217;t up to snuff.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC&#8217;s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices found that FluMist was only 3 percent effective in children aged 2 through 17 during the previous flu season. &#8220;This 3 percent estimate means no protective benefit could be measured,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/rr\/rr6505a1.htm?s_cid=rr6505a1_w#contribAff\">the committee reported.<\/a> In comparison, injected flu vaccines protected about two-thirds of the children in this age group.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC officially accepted that committee&#8217;s recommendation on August 26, but didn&#8217;t go out of its way to announce the policy. It posted its recommendation on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/rr\/rr6505a1.htm?s_cid=rr6505a1_w#contribAff\">a website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics is now following suit, with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pediatrics.aappublications.org\/content\/early\/2016\/09\/01\/peds.2016-2527\">recommendations<\/a> that go out to doctors who tend to the nation&#8217;s youngsters. &#8220;The AAP recommends annual seasonal influenza immunization for <em>everyon<\/em>e 6 months and older, including children and adolescents,&#8221; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The group notes that 85 children died from the flu in the United States during the recent season, based on CDC figures. Most had not been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics says most children will need a single shot. But children new to flu vaccinations will need two doses, four weeks apart. So a double sorry to you.<\/p>\n<p>The pediatricians also recommend flu vaccination for all health care workers and women who are pregnant, considering pregnancy or breastfeeding during the flu season.<\/p>\n<p>The nasal spray vaccine has more fans than the inoculation that comes in a syringe, for obvious reasons. So this turn of events is not simply a disappointment to the manufacturer, AstraZeneca. In fact, the manufacturer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/media-centre\/press-releases\/2016\/astrazeneca-provides-update-on-flumist-quadrivalent-vaccine-in-the-us-for-the-2016-17-influenza-season-23062016.html\">took issue<\/a> with the CDC committee&#8217;s recommendation, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement emailed to Shots, AstraZeneca said it expects limited demand for FluMist in the U.S. but will make sure the vaccine is available in case some doctors request it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/09\/06\/492829843\/pediatricians-recommend-flu-vaccination-just-not-with-the-spray?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pediatricians Recommend Flu Vaccination, Just Not With The Spray\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/09\/06\/492829843\/pediatricians-recommend-flu-vaccination-just-not-with-the-spray?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/09\/06\/492829843\/pediatricians-recommend-flu-vaccination-just-not-with-the-spray?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/09\/06\/flumist_custom-943f0e9ae813dfb079dfe9f18dce7948d9267f41-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Fourth-grader Jasmine Johnson got a FluMist spray at her Annapolis, Md., elementary school in 2007. This year, the nasal spray vaccine isn&#8217;t recommended. <strong>Susan Biddle\/Washington Post\/Getty Images<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>Susan Biddle\/Washington Post\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sorry, kids. Your pediatrician will probably give you the flu vaccine in the form of a shot this year.<\/p>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics said Tuesday that it doesn&#8217;t recommend using the flu vaccine that comes as a nasal spray. That&#8217;s because the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at its performance last year and concluded it wasn&#8217;t up to snuff.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC&#8217;s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices found that FluMist was only 3 percent effective in children aged 2 through 17 during the previous flu season. &#8220;This 3 percent estimate means no protective benefit could be measured,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/rr\/rr6505a1.htm?s_cid=rr6505a1_w#contribAff\">the committee reported.<\/a> In comparison, injected flu vaccines protected about two-thirds of the children in this age group.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC officially accepted that committee&#8217;s recommendation on August 26, but didn&#8217;t go out of its way to announce the policy. It posted its recommendation on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/rr\/rr6505a1.htm?s_cid=rr6505a1_w#contribAff\">a website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics is now following suit, with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pediatrics.aappublications.org\/content\/early\/2016\/09\/01\/peds.2016-2527\">recommendations<\/a> that go out to doctors who tend to the nation&#8217;s youngsters. &#8220;The AAP recommends annual seasonal influenza immunization for <em>everyon<\/em>e 6 months and older, including children and adolescents,&#8221; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The group notes that 85 children died from the flu in the United States during the recent season, based on CDC figures. Most had not been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics says most children will need a single shot. But children new to flu vaccinations will need two doses, four weeks apart. So a double sorry to you.<\/p>\n<p>The pediatricians also recommend flu vaccination for all health care workers and women who are pregnant, considering pregnancy or breastfeeding during the flu season.<\/p>\n<p>The nasal spray vaccine has more fans than the inoculation that comes in a syringe, for obvious reasons. So this turn of events is not simply a disappointment to the manufacturer, AstraZeneca. In fact, the manufacturer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.astrazeneca.com\/media-centre\/press-releases\/2016\/astrazeneca-provides-update-on-flumist-quadrivalent-vaccine-in-the-us-for-the-2016-17-influenza-season-23062016.html\">took issue<\/a> with the CDC committee&#8217;s recommendation, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement emailed to Shots, AstraZeneca said it expects limited demand for FluMist in the U.S. but will make sure the vaccine is available in case some doctors request it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}