The city will soon require some 150,000 children who go to preschool or day care to get flu shots. The Board of Health voted Wednesday for the mandatory vaccine for children under 6, but parents ma… ...

Thermometers at day care centers? The government is urging the nation's 360,000 child care providers to be vigilant about sending home children who may have the flu - and the main symptom to check ...

Last week the city Board of Health voted to force annual flu vaccinations on all babies and children under age 5 who attend day-care centers and preschool programs. Here, Sophia Ling, mother of 3-y… ...

Only 24.5 percent of child care center directors reported having a flu vaccine requirement for children, and only 13.1 percent said they required adult caregivers to be immunized against flu ...

Investigators in the study created flu vaccine messaging – including a brief video, flyer and a scripted health provider question, “Would you be willing to accept the influenza vaccine?” – and ...

"She is in day care and my husband and I are teachers, so any extra protection we can get is good.” Are there situations when my child should not get the flu vaccine?

Ferrets play in a "day care" at the University of Pittsburgh to simulate transmission of flu viruses among kids. Courtesy of Seema Lakdawala (Emory University) and Nicole Rockey (Duke University).