Study: Best way to halt flu is to vaccinate the school kids who are its main spreaders.

[ParisApril]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0...s_med_flu_kids

The last paragraph of this article really stands out to me.

Scientists also have begun to realize that flu vaccine doesn't work as well in people over 65 - who account for most of the 36,000 flu-caused deaths each winter - as it does in the young. While flu vaccine protects 75 per cent to 90 per cent of young healthy people, some research suggests the protection may plummet to 30 per cent among their grandparents.

Couldn't the real answer be that the flu vaccine doesn't really work well at all. The young just are healthier and have a stronger immune system and that is how they are able to recover.

[tanyalynn]

I don't get it. Where's the discussion of the ethical implications of putting kids at risk, even if that risk is believed to be small, to protect adults?

[japonica]

They've been doing this for decades anyway. The rubella vax is given to kids in the hopes of protecting pregnant women.