Influenza-Related Mortality Trends in Japanese and American Seniors: Evidence for the Indirect Mortality Benefits of Vaccinating Schoolchildren

• Vivek Charu ,

  * E-mail: vcharu@gmail.com

  Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Cécile Viboud,

  Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Lone Simonsen,

  Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington D.C., United States of America

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• Katharine Sturm-Ramirez,

  Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Masayoshi Shinjoh,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Gerardo Chowell,

  Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Arizona, United States of America

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• Mark Miller,

  Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Norio Sugaya

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Keiyu Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

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