In a research that examined children for lessening the rates of influenza infection in a community, it has been concluded that vaccinating kids and adolescents against this infection was helpful in reducing the rates of influenza in the examined community.

This research cited in JAMA's 10th March issue concluded that immunizing children of one community can curb the spread of virus and may lessen the transferring thereby helping to prevent the occurrence of the infection in the unimmunized community inhabitants.

The research headed by Dr. Mark Loeb of McMaster University in Hamilton, along with a group of researchers, was conducted in Hutterite communities in Western Canada. It was evidently found that children of 3 to 15 years of age, if vaccinated against influenza, were capable of slicing the chances of catching flu to a significant 60% among the non-vaccinated ones.

Influenza, with a record of about 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 loss of life per year, is the major cause of deaths in US.

The authors of the study elaborate and state the policy that was undertaken during the research emphasizes on immunizing group of people in a community, who are at a higher risk of catching and transferring the flu, in order to reduce the spread of the virus among others in the community.