Via BBC News: Children more likely to catch swine flu, study suggests. Excerpt:
Children are twice as likely as adults to catch swine flu, according to a joint UK-US study.
Imperial College London researchers and a team from the US looked at how the virus spread among families.
In a study of more than 800 people, one in eight people developed the infection after someone in their house got it.
But the team also dismissed suggestions that children may be “super spreaders” as they were found to be no more contagious than older people.
Rates of swine flu have tended to be higher among younger age groups, the official figures have shown.
What is more, there is thought to be a large pool of children who have been infected but not displayed symptoms.
This research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, confirmed that children were more likely to become infected.
The team looked at the families and household contacts of 216 people infected with swine flu.
Of that group of 600, the under-18s were most likely to get it - twice as likely as adults under 50 - while those over the age of 50 were the least likely.
