On its website, the Centers for Disease Control recommend that even if supplies are tight, parents and guardians should have their children aged six months to 4 years be vaccinated. Other children (and adults) should be immunized if supplies are readily available, which it appears they are this year.
Other recommendations for vaccinations are for individuals that:
Have chronic pulmonary (including asthma), cardiovascular (except hypertension), renal, hepatic, neurologic, hematologic, or metabolic disorders (including diabetes mellitus);
- Are immuno-suppressed (including immuno-suppression caused by medications or by human immunodeficiency virus);
- Are aged 6 months through 18 years and receiving long-term aspirin therapy and who therefore might be at risk for experiencing Reye syndrome after influenza virus infection.
More Flu Information
- flu.gov website, from the US Department of Health and Human Services
- Centers for Disease Control: More advice on who should receive -- and not receive -- the vaccine is available at the center's website.
- For a list of clinics in San Diego county where eligible residents can receive shots is on the San Diego Immunization Project's website at http://www.sdiz.org/Home/Flu-Update-Fall-2011-PHC-List.html.
- Other information for parents is available at http://www.sdiz.org/Schools-CC/Resources-for-Parents.html
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