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Stay Curious. View our privacy policy. They're also well acquainted with hand sanitizer, anti-bacterial wipes — and their germ-fighting abilities. Children may not understand what H1N1 influenza is, but about 1 in 5 in the U. Doctors and childcare specialists believe kids, even young ones, have a role to play in limiting the spread of the virus that surfaced earlier this year and is a threat to young people.

Alexis Elward, medical director of infection control for St. Louis Children's Hospital, which has put in place the strictest disease prevention measures in staffers' memory. At the hospital on Monday, several patients in the playroom — and the adults with them — wore protective paper masks while they painted wooden toys or hovered over a "Thomas the Train" playset.

The hospital is considering plans to broadcast a party over closed-circuit televisions this year, to keep hundreds from gathering together at the celebration to turn on the holiday lights. Delivered to your inbox every weekday evening, our politics and policy newsletters are a daily digest of today's news and what's expected to break tomorrow.

National Security. Agency Insider. Don't miss a brief. Sign up for our daily email. This differs greatly from typical seasonal influenza epidemics, during which about 70 percent to 90 percent of deaths are estimated to occur in people 65 years and older.

Though the flu pandemic primarily affected children and young and middle-aged adults, the impact of the H1N1 pdm09 virus on the global population during the first year was less severe than that of previous pandemics. Estimates of pandemic influenza mortality ranged from 0. It is estimated that 0. However, H1N1 pdm09 virus continues to circulate as a seasonal flu virus, and cause illness, hospitalization, and deaths worldwide every year.

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