The Japanese experience with vaccinating schoolchildren against influenza.

By T. Reichert, Norio Sugaya, D. Fedson, W. P. Glezen, L. Simonsen, M. Tashiro. New England Journal of Medicine, 2001

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Subfields: Epidemiology

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• Projecting social contact matrices in 152 countries using contact surveys and demographic data (2017, background): “Evidence for the effect of transmission from children to the elderly comes from Japan, where the cessation of the school influenza vaccination program led to a rise in mortality among the elderly [55].”
• "Herd immunity": a rough guide. (2011, background): “Selective vaccination of schoolchildren against influenza was policy in Japan during the 1990s and was shown to have reduced morbidity and mortality among the elderly [17].”