Children over six months and under 5 years will be offered the swine flu vaccine - 19 November 2009
Department of Health announces children over six months and under 5 years will be offered the swine flu vaccine - 19 November 2009
Professor Terence Stephenson, President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health:
"The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health strongly recommends that parents should get their children vaccinated if they are offered the vaccine. We would also like to emphasise the importance of children's doctors and nurses being vaccinated too, not least to prevent passing the infection on to their patients who may be vulnerable children with serious diseases."
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