On Nov 23, 5:04 pm, "Peter Moran" <
pmo...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> "mainframetech" <
mainframet...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:a809eec1-339a-4808...@r31g2000vbi.googlegroups.com...
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> > A sad story:
>
> >
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/11/18/swine...
>
> > Doctor's said for the boy to get an H1N1 vaccination, when he was
> > physically not up to it. He died.
>
> > Good Luck,
> > Chris
>
> Few comments--
>
> This lad was awaiting a heart-lung transplant, so he certainly would not
> have survived a bad dose of the flu.
>
> From the information given, aspiration pneumonia following vomiting was the
> last straw for his already failing lungs, and the likely immediate cause of
> death.
>
> What caused him to vomit, when he was apparently quite well for over a day
> after vaccination. It is not a common adverse effect of vaccines. There
> are many possibilities, I guess, including a rare effect of vaccine in a
> very sick boy.
>
> Conclusion -- it may be wise not to give the flu vaccine to kids like this,
> but to offer them protection by vaccinating all around him. (There are
> reasons to believe that the H1 N1 vaccine will be more effective than the
> average flu vaccine because of the speed with which the new virus has been
> detected and a well-targeted vaccine produced, )
>
Doctors told the parents that the tot should be inoculated, mirroring
the advice of the standing committee on vaccinations.