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A new study in UK shows that flu in kids predominantly spreads from boys to other boys and from girls to other girls, according to media reports Tuesday.
The study, aiming to look at how social networks control flu spread, found that children are about three times more likely to transmit flu to children of the same gender than to children of the opposite gender.
It also found that flu transmission is more intensive within students sitting in the same class. But sitting next to someone with the flu doesn't, in itself, increase one's risk.
The data "could help us better understand whether and when it would be appropriate to close a school, or whether it might be better to close individual classes or grades," Dr. Simon Cauchemez, the lead author of the study and a researcher at Imperial College London, said in a news release.
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