Monday marked a major shake-up in vaccine recommendations. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC- slashing the number of vaccines recommended for children from 17 to 11.

The vaccine schedules of the 20 reviewed countries show that the flu shot is recommended universally in four countries and a shot against hepatitis A is universal only in Greece. The rotavirus shot is recommended for all children in 17 countries and shots against meningococcal disease are recommended in 16 of the countries.

Six routine childhood vaccines will no longer be universally recommended under new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Influenza remains a health concern going into the new year, both in Marshall County and internationally. A mutated strain of influenza A, H3N2 subclade K, is increasing worldwide. The CDC’s FluView website tracks national rates of flu.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reduced the number of vaccines it recommends for all children.

The Trump administration changed a schedule that included things like the seasonal flu shot. The state will follow the American Academy of Pediatrics instead.

The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18, including Covid, previously on the schedule.

A physician assistant said Joseph Dudley had the flu and sent him home. Days later, emergency room doctors diagnosed him with acute meningitis.

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