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A Pandemic Which Targets Children? I am a parent, and I am going to assume that you are one too.

They are completely dependent on you for help.

I have thought a lot about influenza over the years, and I have studied it intently - at first with great interest, and later with foreboding, especially now that I am a parent and have more to lose in the event of a severe pandemic.

In fact, now that I am a parent, the world looks quite threatening to me and I spend a lot of my time thinking about the dangers that lurk around every corner.

I am inclined to do this because when you are young and single and without children, you tend to feel like you are invincible, and something like the threat of pandemic influenza is not likely to send you searching for information on the web about how to deal with it.

So I am going to make a concerted effort not to try to convince you of anything, lest I come off as an alarmist, which is not my intention.

This is the curse of youth, and it is not something that begins to lift until you are out of your twenties and children have entered your life.

Instead, I am simply going to tell you what I hope you will do after reading this page.

Even if you still maintain the delusion, as I do, that somehow you will muddle through any threat to your safety, you are not likely to be so cavalier when it comes to your children.

I know that I am not.

This is why is it my hope that you will both educate yourself and prepare some form of pan....

This simple fact should have parents everywhere concerned.

The average age of those infected by swine flu in 2009 is just 19 years of age .

Your children, as you are well aware, can neither recognize that a threat now looms, nor can they do anything to alleviate that threat.

Unlike seasonal strains of influenza, the novel H1N1 swine flu strain, as it is called, has a particular affinity for the very young.