[blam]

They don't know if the baby died from the flu virus yet. It seems like two moths would have been enough time to acclimate to the shot, huh?

[blam]

Ping.

[Judith Anne]

I wonder if the child had the Fujian strain...immunization doesn't work against it, right?

Anyway, this is shaping up to be a hard season.

[torstars]

Yes, it seems unlikely that the shot had anything to do with the baby's death. There have been a couple of reports of deaths in young, previously healthy children or toddlers. The virus is consistently changing, so I was curious to see if the vaccine was reducing the severity of the disease, especially in younger, immunologically naive patients, but there have been a few reports describing fatal cases in children already immunized.

[TaxRelief]

Healthy children, under nine years old, require two shots four weeks apart. Less healthy children have a 3rd shot 4-6 weeks later.