Children may get swine flu vaccine

Tuesday, 03 April, 2012, 7:27pm

Targeting children for vaccination may be the best way of using limited supplies of vaccine to control the swine flu pandemic, British researchers said.

Drugmakers are racing to make a vaccine against the new flu strain, but if the disease increases significantly in the northern hemisphere this autumn, there are unlikely to be enough shots to vaccinate entire populations.

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