Ana Cole
11/27/2009
11:13am
Blog #13
Summary
In Ireland, parents with children under the age of five are urged by the HSE to receive the swine flu vaccine. The national director population health with the HSE stated that children who have not been vaccinated are at a high risk of getting swine flu. Also children who are under the age of five are in the high priority group. There is a high concern that the sufficient number of the group are not getting vaccinated. The people at the HSE have sent almost 150,000 letters to around half of the parents with children under the age of five. So far only twenty five percent have responded to the letter. There are several parents who have not received the letters but they will in the coming weeks. Across the country so far a minimum of 240,000 people have received the swine flu vaccine.
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I am glad to see that the HSE have urged the parents of children under the age of five to receive the swine flu vaccination. I am also glad to see that they have sent out almost 150,000 letters these parents. The article also stated that vaccinations are beginning to take place in primary and secondary school and is expected to take two months to complete. This is glad that are allowing these students to get the vaccination for swine flu. On the other hand I am worried because of the high priority group which are the children of are under the age of five. It seems to me that the swine flu is affecting them the worse. Hopefully since the HSE has urged the parents who have children under the age of five to get vaccinated this may help protect them from contracting the swine flu virus.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1126/breaking108_pf.html
1 comment:
Hopefully the percentage of kids under 5 that end up with rare neurological or physical disorders as a result of the vaccination is less than the percentage that die from the swine flu.
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