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Half of U.S. babies don't get flu vaccination

While experts would prefer the vaccination rate to increase--and it has--the fact that nearly half of infants received a flu vaccine is a radical change from 2002-2003.

By Jack Craver | Updated on February 04, 2016
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Many, if not most, U.S. infants do not receive flu vaccinations, but the number who are vaccinated has dramatically increased over the past decade.

A report published in Pediatrics, the medical journal affiliated with the American Academy of Pediatrics, found that in 2011-2012, only 44.7 percent of children between the ages of six months and 23 months were subject to “full influenza vaccination coverage.”

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