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How do you feel about tracking kids for research on the flu?

Posted at 12:14 PM, Nov 05, 2012
and last updated 2012-11-05 12:14:22-05

How do you feel about tracking kids for research on the flu?

Tracking devices in schools to combat the flu?

More than 400 students in Pennsylvania will wear electronic necklaces so researchers can track how often they come in contact with each other. The idea is to help researchers track how the flu may be spread among students.

The University of Pittsburgh’s social mixing and respiratory transmission in schools says they came up with idea when the H1N1 flu swept through the country back in 2009.

Tracking kids for research on the flu? Are your for or against it?