As the school-based flu vaccination programme starts in Hong Kong on Monday, hospital pharmacists have urged officials to offer intranasal spray as an option to ease parents’ concerns about traditional injections.
Medical teams will visit 184 primary schools across the city to administer free flu jabs under a new government scheme meant to ensure children are vaccinated against the viral infection. Earlier this year, 398 people died of the flu, two of them children.
Health authorities...
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