Influenza Vaccination and Migration at the US Southern Border.

Influenza Vaccination and Migration at the US Southern Border. Am J Public Health. 2020 Feb 05;:e1-e2 Authors: Sunderji A, Mena KN, Winickoff J, Melinek J, Sharfstein J Abstract In the past year, at least three children who migrated across the US southern border in the custody of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) died with laboratory-confirmed influenza infection as a contributing factor.1 The first was Felipe, an eight-year-old boy from Guatemala who died in December 2018 upon arrival to the hospital after being diagnosed with influenza B earlier in the day. The second was Wilmer, a two-year-old boy who died in May 2019 after an eight-day admission to the pediatric intensive care unit, where he had tested positive for influenza A. The third was Carlos, a 16-year-old boy who was diagnosed with influenza A in May 2019 at a CBP Centralized Processing Center. He was given oseltamivir and transferred to another detention facility in isolation, where he was found dead in his cell less than 24 hours later. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print February 05, 2020: e1-e2. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305547). PMID: 32023080 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: research