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In the northern hemisphere, winter is once again on its way. And with it comes flu season, and perhaps our first serious encounter with the H1N1 avian flu. The typical strategy — which focuses on inoculating the elderly and very young — may not be the best way to protect the most people. Simulations reported in a recent paper in Science show that for a disease like the H1N1 avian flu, inoculating school kids and their parents reduces the number of deaths most efficiently. This, the Clemson and Yale researchers believe, is because kids are primary spreaders of the disease. Does inoculating all school kids make sense to you? What (if anything) will you do differently this year to react to the threat of H1N1?
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