Title: Parents divided over whether to vaccinate their children

" Flu outbreak is providing a difficult question for many parents should they have their children vaccinated. Against the H1N1 virus."

" And -- Paul says many parents are scared of the new vaccine. But at the same time there's growing evidence children are most in need of a vaccine and -- on Huntington reports."

" Like many parents these days Katie congress of Essex Vermont is weighing her options trying to decide whether to vaccinated her son for the H1N1 virus could try to dig up that night she says she wants to protect him from the so called swine flu. But doesn't wanna put him at risk in the process. It's the same dilemma many parents are facing as the flu continues to spread across the country hitting school aged children hardest. Federal health officials said Thursday one in five kids had a flu like illness earlier this month it's very different from the usual seasonal flu model. That it's the elderly and seasonal flu for two -- has just joined most other states in raising its flu activity level to widespread. School absences have been increasing with some schools reporting hundreds of students out sick this week. And health officials now say it's fairly -- most flu cases RDH one N one virus schools in Vermont are working with health officials to plan flu clinics for when -- H1N1 vaccine is available parental consent forms return to the Health Department show on average. Sixty to 70% of parents would like their children to be vaccinated."

" And at least one school only about a third of parents agreed that to have their kids vaccinated in school. And in other schools it was right around 80% this is a problem more than."

" Under the H1N1 vaccine Brendan Leonard plans to have his children vaccinated following the advice of health officials who say the vaccine is safe and highly recommended it was -- less risky to backs made that it was to get them. But a new ABC news Washington Post poll finds almost 40% of parents nationwide don't want their children vaccinated to feel like right now -- a little bit of any -- Fear based reaction that's a lot of mystery still around it. Doctor William -- of the university of Vermont College of Medicine says the H1N1 vaccine is no riskier than a seasonal flu vaccine and is made the same way he adds the risks pale in comparison to the flu itself."

" So you have a risk of death versus a risk of a sore arm. I would really go."

" But the risk of a sore arm that's putting it bluntly he admits that he hopes parents we'll get the message in Burlington Vermont kind of panicky and he. And we liked."