© AlamyFlu vaccine: Nasal spray could protect against norovirus
The scheme, which is expected to be rolled out in 2014, will see all children aged two to 17 given the vaccination through a nasal spray.
Younger children will be given the spray at their GP practice and schoolchildren will receive it at school.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises the Government on vaccination policy, said the flu program should be extended to children because it could reduce the rate of infection by 40%.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has accepted the recommendation, a Department of Health spokesman said.
At present, over-65s, pregnant women and people with a serious medical condition, including children, are eligible for a seasonal flu jab.
The UK will become the first country to offer the flu vaccine to healthy children free of charge.
The measure is expected to cost £100 million a year.
Healthy children are among those who are least likely to develop complications from being infected by flu, but their close contact with each other means they are more likely to transmit the virus to one another and other vulnerable people.
The mass immunisation program is estimated to lead to 11,000 fewer hospital admissions and 2,000 fewer deaths every year.
The Department of Health said it needs to examine a number of issues before the program can be rolled out.
Masses of the vaccine, which will be used on about nine million children, need to be sourced and a decision needs to be made on who will deliver the vaccine - whether it should be school nurses or other healthcare workers.
Health experts also need to decide how the program will be delivered in a six to eight-week period ahead of the flu season.
And that pretty much does sum it up, but it's nothing new . . .
For a rather more positive take on the state of the Cosmos, have a look at this [Link] to the latest C's transcript.
In respect of the "Greenbaum" reference therein, that possibility loomed rather large for me but I've posted about that particular MK-Ultra work several times and didn't want to be seen as beating a lame drum.
If you dig into the transcripts from about 2000-ish you'll find references to Greenbaum/MK-Ultra "candidates" potentially being "launched" at "appropriate" moments and if you look at the manifest weirdness of the Batman incident you'll see that in that case the enterprise had at its core the vectoring into the mass-mind of the possibility of "random insanity" anywhere, anytime . . .so, BE AFRAID, like, all the time, about everything . . .
And don't go to the London Olympics with your hair dyed orange. . .