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The swine flu season is still in full swing, but many parents say they’re not going to get the second swine flu shot for their kids.
And that doesn’t make health officials happy. Continue reading »
H1N1 has had an unexpected effect — the Denver Milk bank, one of only ten in the country, is nearly empty of donated breastmilk for sick babies.
The bank’s usual donor pool is down to about 60 mothers from its usual 100. If a nursing mother had the flu or someone in her family did, or if she received the nasal H1N1 vaccine, she can’t donate for a period of time. Since the milk usually goes to premature or otherwise very fragile babies, there’s just too much risk in possibly exposing them to the flu virus. Continue reading »
A mom who opted out on the swine flu shots for kids at her daughter’s school is spitting mad – the school immunized the child anyway.
Natasha Jones told WSOCTV she’d told the school nurse at her daughter’s South Carolina Elementary School she specifically didn’t want the girl inoculated against swine flu. Continue reading »
A mother’s decision not to give her child the swine flu shot has landed her in court. But it isn’t the government sending her there. It’s the child’s father.
Neither of the parents are being named to protect the identify of their nine-year-old daughter, but the Telegraph reported Dad wants his daughter to get the shot. Continue reading »
Workers at a children’s hospital aren’t being forced to submit to an H1N1 vaccine, so why are they suing the hospital? Because the facility is forcing those who don’t take the shot to wear a mask to protect the sick children from possible contamination.
A rep for the nurse’s union at the Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego told 10 News it’s like a scarlet letter that they’re being forced to wear. Continue reading »
Some pundits are saying that the horrific Foot Hood shooting yesterday was a “terrorist act.” Some describe the shooter, Major Malik Nadal Hasan, as a “Muslim extremist” because of comments he made online. Hasan reportedly is suffering from PTSD, and is an Army psychiatrist who himself was trained to treat PTSD. Here’s a video of Hasan taken a few hours before the terrible shooting. Continue reading »
The numbers of kids dying from swine flu are climbing in the United States, and last week was a doozy. According to the CDC, nineteen kids died of confirmed cases of H1N1 between Oct. 18 and 24.
That brings the number of kids (everyone under eighteen) killed by swine flu to one hundred fifteen since the pandemic began in April. Sixty-five of those cases have happened since school began (after August 30). Continue reading »
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