Paula López Monteagudo

Paula López Monteagudo

Paula López Monteagudo
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York (USA)

Reactions: Study says children born in October are less likely to get the flu

Children born in October are more likely to be vaccinated against flu during that month and less likely to be diagnosed with the disease than those born in other months, according to a study published in BMJ. The research involved more than 800,000 US children aged two to five years who were vaccinated against the flu between 1 August and 31 January in the period from 2011 to 2018. The results suggest that the month of birth is related to both the timing of flu vaccination and the likelihood of flu diagnosis, and that October is the best month for flu vaccination.

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