Friday, November 6, 2009

Honesty key to telling kids about vaccine

By Bradley Bouzane, Canwest News Service

Parents should be honest with their kids about the virus and try to keep them calm.
With the H1N1 virus being linked to two deaths in recent days of Ontario children 13 and under, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Paediatric Society says parents should be honest with their kids about the virus and try to keep them calm.

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3 comments:

  1. Does anyone else think the hysteria over H1N1 has been blown way out of proportion? Every year 4000+ Canadians die of the flu. This article is talking about THREE children who have died from the H1N1 virus. Unfortunately, children die from the flu every year. Those cases do not make the news. To be honest, I haven't been able to watch the news for over a week because I am so exhausted from the over-kill stories about H1N1. I think the media is the real virus in all of this mania.

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  2. Good point Roxane - I heard a show on CBC radio on Saturday: White Coat, Black Art. Part of it is here:

    http://www.cbc.ca/whitecoat/2009/10/h1n1_putting_sad_stories_into_1.html

    He talks about how H1N1 is a numbers game and some about how the healthy young boy in Ontario could have died.

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  3. Thanks Shane. That article had some excellent points.

    Wendy Mesley interviewed two health officials last week on The National (I don't remember their names.) In the interview they discussed the nation-wide mass hysteria regarding H1N1 and if the media is to blame for this. The male health offical commented that at the end of this H1N1 outbreak, 200-300 Canadians will die from the virus and 4000 from the regular flu.

    I complain that I am tired of hearing about H1N1 and sick of talking about it, yet here I am engaged in another discussion on the matter.

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