The results of a new study show that vaccinating children of five years and younger didn’t decrease in number for influenza related child hospitalization or doctor’s visits.

Dr. Robert Belshe, who is professor of medicine and pediatrics and director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the Saint Louis University Medical Center, said “The finding is not surprising at all if we compare the poor match between the flu vaccine and circulating strains in the past two years.” It’s worth mentioning that Dr. Robert wasn’t involved in the study.

The results of another study that is going to be published in the October issue of Pediatrics show that in the US children flu related deaths are on increase and that’s why the flu shots have become quite important.
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After the deaths’ reports from contaminated milk, the scandal of tainted dairy products has spread like a wild fire in China as well as in other countries of the world.

In their inspection, the inspectors noticed that around 10% milk taken from three companies was contaminated with melamine. The milk powder killed four babies and sickened around 6,000 others in three provinces of China.

The manufacturers of this milk powder added a banned chemical melamine (use in making plastic) that makes milk appear higher in protein.
continue reading Tainted milk scandal: Inspectors found 10% milk contaminated from three major Chinese companies.

After deaths of three babies from contaminated milk formula, Chinese officials have announced to launch a countrywide testing of all dairy products.

According to the officials, more than 6,100 babies got illness after taking milk contaminated with the chemical called melamine.

Different tests of these milk formulas showed that around 69 batches from 22 companies had banned substances in their milk formulas.
continue reading China will launch countrywide testing of all dairy products.