Poll: Sixty percent of parents refuse to H1N1 vaccinate kids

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The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health surveyed a national sample of parents in August 2009 in order to measure their attitudes regarding H1N1 flu and intentions to vaccinate their children against H1N1 flu.

Despite national recommendations issued in July emphasizing the importance for kids of vaccination against H1N1 flu, 60 percent of parents polled refuse to have their children vaccinated. More than half of the parents who reported they will not have their children receive the H1N1 vaccine cited their number one reason to be concern over vaccine side effects.

Read the full report.