The optimal way to control swine flu, the H1N1 virus that has emerged as a current global threat, is to vaccinate children, says David Kimberlin, a Vaccination (Getty Images)
medical expert.

The reason behind making children the highest priority comes from decades of experience with flu transmission, prevention strategies, infection monitoring and many other factors. Additionally, children younger than five are at higher risk of complications from influenza.

Kimberlin, co-director of the division of paediatric infectious diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is one of four US physicians serving on the Federal Safety Monitoring Committee reviewing clinical trials of H1N1 vaccines. READ MORE…

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