The children from Rhode Island will soon be offered flu vaccines right there in their schools this year since the state Department of Health launches a new approach to combat the influenza. It plans to make this practice a regular routine.

The program targets at recreating the success of Rhode Island’s campaign against H1N1 swine flu the previous year which included school-based clinics.

These clinics vaccinated three-quarters of the state’s school-aged children which is the highest in the country. However, it is also aimed at preventing the spread of influenza to adults.

Dr. Elizabeth B. Lange, immediate past president of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics said, “Children are the vectors for distribution of flu illness in a community. They get all of us parents and grandparents sick.”

Lange said, “Children should have many options to obtain the vaccine. Between primary care offices and school clinics … the goal is to get children protected.”

Apart from the special facility for children adults also should have no trouble in getting access to the flu vaccine this year.