Vaccinate Now To Curtail Swine Flu, U.S. Study Warns

A doctor at the University of Mainz, Germany, shows how the H1N1 vaccination is given. Human swine flu will begin spreading substantially any day now, peak in mid- to late-October and infect 32 per cent of the population, according to a new study on the potential impact of the anticipated fall wave of H1N1. Photograph by: AFP; Getty Images, The Leader-Post

From The Canadian Press:

Human swine flu will begin spreading substantially any day now, peak in mid- to late-October and infect 32 per cent of the population, according to a new study on the potential impact of the anticipated fall wave of H1N1.

Reporting in the journal Science, U.S. researchers say school children need to be immunized as quickly as possible to curb H1N1's spread. They estimate each infected child will infect 2.4 other children in a school outbreak, putting swine flu in the "higher range of transmissibility" for influenza.

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