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I am a doctor, and I was going to get my 4 yo and 2 yo vaccinated. I'm going to wait a while and see what happens. This is the first time (that I can recall) that they have been advising to have kids vaccinated against seasonal flu. Febrile convulsions are usually harmless, but scare about 10yrs life off the parents!
I was discussing this with a colleague recently - he said that 30% of children tested in the UK actually had antibodies against Swine Flu. What does this mean - most of the people who have had it, didn't even know they had it.
On the other hand, I also work at a major teaching hospital in Brisbane and am involved in managing patients on ECMO (a long term artificial lung) - the first patient we put on ECMO last year was sick with Swine flu. He was a previously well 30yo fellow who someone had sneezed on!
I think the article was quite benign.
DT
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