[This story is important to me. Please Digg it if you agree.]
This story is so sad, and what makes it worse is that it was preventable. The Centers for Disease Control has put out an alert: in Minnesota in 2008, there were five confirmed cases of Haemophilus influenzae type b (or Hib) among children younger than five years old. Of these five cases, three of the children were unvaccinated, one had started the series of vaccines but did not complete the series due to shortages, and the fifth -- who had been fully vaccinated -- had an immune deficiency. Five cases may not sound like a lot... until you learn that one of the unvaccinated children died. This was a baby, just a seven-month-old infant. I can barely type that sentence out; my heart is aching so. I can only imagine what the parents are feeling. I literally have ...
