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Great Britain 6 months and 5 years of age to all children between the vaccination program against the spread of avian H1N1, some 27 million people, the Government’s health chief said Thursday.

Although influenza infection rates are dropping pig’s worst case forecast has been revised down sharply, the Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson said young children were still significant risk.

, Donaldson “Although we are seeing a relatively large number, particularly children in hospitals and intensive care, I think that they are not interested much in common practice, we continue to fight the disease in more interested “Press said in a conference.

He says that the decline in virus had now certainly decline. He said, “I think this is just really quick to say” said. New cases of swine influenza in England continued decline, with 53,000 last week, down from 64.000 last week.

But in children less than 5 years because of cases hospitalized last July at the level of H1N1 in recent weeks when the infection is being spiked barbed. A total of 214 people have died from the virus in Britain.

More than 12 million people in Britain with healthy children vaccinated decisions are now eligible. Many European countries to H1N1, usually targeted at risk groups have begun against the first vaccine.

In the first phase of the vaccination program, launched last month, pregnant women, aims, head of health workers, and “high risk” others considered.

But a survey of Pulse Medical Journal this week revealed that the majority of them refused to viruses because of their doubt about the likely severity of the epidemic.

Donaldson, whose own survey 73 percent of parents who showed off their children’s report dismissed.

He said, “If general practitioners Pulse readers, such a study and a prestigious medical journal that published it has not been submitted. The primary care physicians were surveyed on a very small scale” said.

GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca PLC, Novartis and Sanofi-Aventis about a H1N1 vaccine manufacturers around the world are among the 25.

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