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Flu-Fighting Efforts Focus On Getting Kids Immunized

THE UPCOMING flu season could be the start of something big. Not "big" as in the severity of flu. By all accounts, this year's influenza vaccine should be more successful than last year's only partly effective one. And it's too early to tell whether the flu this season will be especially widespread.

We mean "big" in terms of a grand, new experiment in the nation's approach to preventing flu outbreaks -- a push to vaccinate children, who are not only hospitalized at high rates because of the flu but appear to be efficient disease carriers as well.

To read more click on Getting Kids Immunized.

posted by Mike @ 7:22 AM