The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to recommend that children, starting between 6 to 23 months of age, be vaccinated annually against influenza, and the CDC accepted the recommendation. [announcement]

They are also recommending that any siblings, parents, and care-givers of these children should also get an annual flu shot.

(The ACIP is also the government body that says all kids must get shots for hepatitis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, and pneumococcal. Seeing as how they have wiped out polio, measles, and mumps in just one generation, they must know what they are talkinga about!)