H1N1 flu pandemic has been troubling our lives since 2009 (the disastrous year of the flu) and the effects of the illness are so terrible that many healthy children have become critically ill since then and have developed severe pneumonia and respiratory failure.

To uncover some more facts about the illness, a nationwide investigation in the US has recently linked the illness to simultaneous infection among children, known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

The investigation has been led by Children's Hospital Boston, and in its report the hospital has clearly mentioned that MRSA has been acting as a big source for elevating the risk for flu-related mortality by approximately eight times among healthy children.

Moreover, the journal pediatrics also highlighted that the majority of the co-infected children were treated with vancomycin, which is considered as the most appropriate treatment for MRSA but despite proper medication many children still died, which stated an alarming situation in view of the rising rates of MRSA among children.

"There`s more risk for MRSA to become invasive in the presence of flu or other viruses", says study leader Prof Adrienne Randolph, Critical Care Medicine, Children`s Hospital Boston. "These deaths in co-infected children are a warning sign".

Researchers are crossing fingers that their findings would help them promote flu vaccination to save maximum children from the growing danger. At present, they are aiming to serve the vaccination to all children aged six months and older because no flu vaccine is currently available for children younger than six months.

The 2009 H1N1 virus is again expected to trouble children this season, thus authorities are putting in their best efforts to prevent, and treat it appropriately. Influenza vaccination is the newest to protect children against 2009 H1N1 illness suggested by senior study investigator Mr. Tim Uyeki of the Influenza Division under the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).