Giuseppe
Emeritus
Experiences of giving oseltamivir to school children during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic (Euro Surveill., extract, edited)
[Source: EuroSurveillance.org, <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19570">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Extract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 19, 13 May 2010
Editorials
Experiences of giving oseltamivir to school children during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic
J Giesecke 1
1. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
Citation style for this article: Giesecke J. Experiences of giving oseltamivir to school children during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(19)
ii=19570. Available online: (LINK)
Date of submission: 13 May 2010
In this week?s issue, Eurosurveillance publishes an article on experiences of giving oseltamivir to school children during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic in the United Kingdom (UK) [1]. Already in 2009 the journal published two other studies on the same subject. [2,3]. All three studies were carried out in late spring 2009, when the UK still upheld its strategy of containment against the new influenza and together they report on a total of 638 children.
There are at least three reasons to give antivirals against influenza to children. The first is obviously to prevent or mitigate a disease that can be quite severe even in healthy children. The second is the mounting evidence that school children play a major role in the spread of an influenza epidemic [4,5]. The third is somewhat similar to the second, but rather a family than a society matter: to provide indirect protection for infant siblings that are too young to receive drugs or vaccine.
In the UK one year ago, the reason for offering oseltamivir to school children seems to have been a combination of the first two points mentioned above [6].
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[Source: EuroSurveillance.org, <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19570">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Extract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 19, 13 May 2010
Editorials
Experiences of giving oseltamivir to school children during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic
J Giesecke 1
1. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
Citation style for this article: Giesecke J. Experiences of giving oseltamivir to school children during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(19)
ii=19570. Available online: (LINK)Date of submission: 13 May 2010
In this week?s issue, Eurosurveillance publishes an article on experiences of giving oseltamivir to school children during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic in the United Kingdom (UK) [1]. Already in 2009 the journal published two other studies on the same subject. [2,3]. All three studies were carried out in late spring 2009, when the UK still upheld its strategy of containment against the new influenza and together they report on a total of 638 children.
There are at least three reasons to give antivirals against influenza to children. The first is obviously to prevent or mitigate a disease that can be quite severe even in healthy children. The second is the mounting evidence that school children play a major role in the spread of an influenza epidemic [4,5]. The third is somewhat similar to the second, but rather a family than a society matter: to provide indirect protection for infant siblings that are too young to receive drugs or vaccine.
In the UK one year ago, the reason for offering oseltamivir to school children seems to have been a combination of the first two points mentioned above [6].
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