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Article: American Lung Association Launches Flu Shot Awareness Campaign to Target People With Asthma, Lung Disease and the Elderly.
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- September 19, 2003
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NEW YORK, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 20.3 million Americans, 6.3 million of them under the age of 18, have asthma. People with asthma are more likely to develop serious complications and die from the flu than those who do not have asthma and hospitalization rates for people with asthma increase two to three-fold during major flu epidemics.
Until recently, experts were concerned that the flu vaccine may worsen or exacerbate current asthma. But research indicates that giving the flu vaccination to every child with asthma means more than 100,000 kids would be spared a trip to the hospital, at a savings of $398 million a year.
More than 36,000 ...