Perth researchers are launching a vaccine trial for kids as younger as two months outdated to assist shield them towards influenza.
Babies at two hospitals will probably be given a full grownup dose of the vaccine, below supervision, as a part of the Telethon Kids Institute examine.
Institute professor Chris Blyth mentioned the FluBub examine would happen at Perth Children’s Hospital and Adelaide’s Women and Children’s Hospital.
“This year has already seen an early influx of severe flu cases amongst children Australia-wide, which coincides with reduced flu vaccination uptake,” Professor Blyth advised Seven.
“We have already seen an increase in hospitalisations with one recent death, and we are keen to protect as many babies and children as possible.”
Researchers wish to recruit 160 infants for the examine over the subsequent two years, with kids below six months most in danger from hospitalisation with the flu.
“But we don’t have a licensed vaccine for them,” Professor Blyth mentioned.
News of the examine comes a month after the dying of three-year-old Muhammed Segaff, who died at Perth’s Fiona Stanley Hospital after presenting with influenza A.
He’s the youngest flu dying in Western Australia this yr.
West Australians over the age of six months have till Saturday to obtain a free flu vaccination.
Source: www.news.com.au
