Ask the parents of the dozens of children who died from flu this year if they are sorry they didn't get their child vaccinated.
105 US kids died of flu; most didn't get vaccineMarch 23, 2013
By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- The flu season is winding down, and it has killed 105 children so far -- about the average toll. . . . . Roughly 100 children die in an average flu season. One exception was the swine flu pandemic of 2009-2010, when 348 children died.
. . . All but four of the children who died were old enough to be vaccinated, but 90 percent of them did not get vaccinated, CDC officials said. . . .