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Did Your Kids Get a Flu Shot?
Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Health & Safety: Toddlers & Preschoolers, Health & Safety: Big Kids, Health & Safety: Tweens, Health & Safety: Teens
We know they hate needles, but will you get your kids the flu shot? Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
To avoid a sniffly, feverish fate for their children, many parents get their kids a yearly flu shot. But not everyone. Last year, when H1N1 was big news, an Associated Press poll found that one third of parents were opposed to the swine flu vaccine. In September of this year, the American Lung Association urged kids and adults to get vaccinated. And that was before a baby tragically died from the flu.
Have your kids gotten their flu shots yet? Did you get one for yourself?
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11-09-2010 @ 11:13AM
Alicia said...With or without the shot there will always be fatalities from flu because there are several different strains born every year and only one is planned for in the vaccine. With that in mind, it's a waste of time and money to get the shot. It's like the TSA: A pretty facade to make us feel like we're safe without actually doing much good. Sure a strain or a couple possible troublemakers are caught, but there will always be another strain or another person with a bomb that will manage to get past it.
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11-09-2010 @ 5:07PM
Heather said...No and none of us will be. I got one last year and my arm hurt for months and I had a lump there. Now that it is cold again it is starting to hurt there again. Also if H1N1 comes back I could still get it because it wasn't an natural immunity. If you get the actual viris you are now immune to it. That is also why we are required to get boosters every so many years because you are never fully immune til you catch it. Remember that when your kids get to college they need to update thier chicken pox vaccine because it is worse to get it at that age then if they got it as kids.
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