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One more note about that flu-vaccine study...

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Maybe you’ll find this interesting.... Hepatitis A vaccine was used as a control vaccine in the recently published study assessing the herd immunity potential of vaccinating kids against influenza -- not just because the Hepatitis A vaccine is safe but because Hutterite communities have had outbreaks of the disease.

So regardless of the flu vaccine’s benefit, the control vaccine was beneficial as well.

Just seems like a nice touch...

Here’s the original post: Whaddyaknow? That crazy vaccinate-kids-against-flu strategy just might work

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-- Tami Dennis

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