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Yesterday ACIP (the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) made a small adjustment to this fall’s seasonal flu vaccine recommendations for children under the age of 10.
In a non-unanimous decision (10-5), the panel voted that children who didn’t receive at least one dose of the H1N1 pandemic vaccine last year should receive two doses of the trivalent seasonal vaccine this year.
Those that already received the monovalent H1N1 vaccine would only need one shot.
Lisa Schnirring of CIDRAP has the details, along with some information on studies being conducted by the CDC on CSL’s trivalent vaccine which produced an unusually high number of side effects (mostly fever) in Australian children under the age of five.
CDC advisors tweak seasonal flu vaccine advice for young kids
Lisa Schnirring
Staff Writer
Jun 24, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – Aiming to close some of the gaps in protection against the pandemic H1N1 virus expected to circulate this fall, a federal vaccine advisory group today recommended that children aged 6 months to 9 years who haven't received at least one dose of monovalent pandemic vaccine receive two doses of the upcoming season's trivalent vaccine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) made the recommendation at its meeting today after seeing the most recent immunogenicity data for the pandemic vaccine. Though it was 62% protective among all age-groups after one dose, rates were lower in younger children. Some CDC experts said this supports the recommendation for a 2-dose, prime-boost pandemic immunization strategy for children 6 months to 9 years old.
