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locations. Hong Kong residents typically have physical contact with around five other people each day; the UK is similar, but in Italy, the average is ten.[15]
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the 2009 influenza pandemic, there were two outbreak peaks in the United Kingdom: one in the spring and one in the autumn. To understand what caused this pattern, we simply need to look at schools. These bring children together in an intensely social environment, creating a potential mixing pot of infection; during the school holidays, children have around 40 per cent fewer daily social
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during the 2009 flu pandemic in Hong Kong.[18] We found that it was the high number of social contacts among children that drove the pandemic, with a drop in contacts and infection after childhood. But there was a subsequent increase in risk when people reached parenthood age. As any teacher or parent will know, interactions with children means an increased risk of infection. In the US, people without children in their house typically spend a few weeks of the year infected with viruses; people with one child have an infection for about a third of the year; and those with two children will on
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