This story is a round-up of the strategies school districts and/or states are using to try to minimize the number of cases of novel H1N1 influenza for the coming flu season.

2009 may be the biggest vaccination program for schoolchildren  since the polio vaccine. (That was discovered in the 1950s.)

You will need to check to see what your child’s school or school district plans.

Associated Press Enterprise

…“The school setting is attractive for many reasons, said Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Swine flu seems to strike the young most often, and it’s particularly easy to spread from child to child. Moreover, school-age children “don’t see doctors very often,” Schuchat told the AP, after they’ve accumulated the list of vaccinations required for school entry.

“She added that it should be relatively easy for schools to offer flu-shot clinics because the federal government would be buying swine flu vaccine and sending it free to states.”

Source: Associated Press Enterprise, August 16, 2009