Overall, 95 children (35 children Flu-25; 29 children Flu-50; 31 children control) experienced 133 serious adverse events (SAEs).
The study, published online by the Lancet medical journal, looked at all reported child flu deaths in the nine months between June 2009 and March 2010.
The study analyzed information on child flu deaths reported to the CDC.
Parents are now especially reluctant to inoculate children against flu, because many flu vaccines contain thimerosal.
A small study of children with flu in Japan finds that the influenza virus can outwit a drug that was thought to be relatively foolproof.
In addition, the importance of children receiving flu shots was heightened last year after a number of children who had contracted the flu died in Colorado.
We get children with flu every year – we are expecting a bad year this year.
The public health benefits of vaccinating children against flu are far-reaching.
Then researchers discovered that aspirin, given to children with flu, chicken pox or any viral illness, could increase the risk of the potentially fatal Reye's syndrome.
For example, if a physician saw three young children with flu symptoms in his office, he might sell any yellow shares he had for the following week and buy red ones.
This fall, the New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice held a rally in Trenton that drew hundreds of parents who said they should be the ones to decide if their children need flu shots, not the state.
