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A three-year-old Indiana girl who died from the flu Monday was not vaccinated, according to local news outlets.
Alivia Viellieux, passed away in her sleep at her Muncie, Indiana home after being discharged from Ball Memorial Hospital last Thursday, WRTV reported.
Her family says they were advised not to give their daughter the flu shot, according to local media reports.
“Alivia did not have [the flu vaccine] because they had told us once the flu is going around, it’s not going to matter if you get it or not,” the toddler’s grandmother, Tameka Stettler, told WRTV. “We just decided not to put those chemicals in the girl’s body if it’s not going to help.”
Delaware county coroner Scott Hahn told the Star Press that Viellieux died from the flu and a secondary infection of pneumonia. The 3-year-old’s passing is the first pediatric flu death in Muncie, Ind., Hahn told the newspaper.
The toddler’s grandmother said the family initially brought Viellieux, who had a 106 degree fever, to a walk-in medical clinic where she tested positive for Influenza A, and was then sent to the hospital emergency room, WRTV reported.
When she appeared to being doing better after a three day stay, the hospital sent her home, Stettler said in her interview with the station.
Viellieux would have turned four next month.
So far, 167 flu deaths and three school-wide outbreaks have been reported in Indiana this flu season, according to the Indiana State Department of Health’s weekly influenza report.
crimsonBZD on February 14th, 2018 at 16:08 UTC »
I have a co-worker who, god bless her soul, can't see the connection here. She says "No vaccines! They make you sick!" and then wonders why her unvaccinated kid has been sick with the flu for 2 weeks on the verge of pnumonia.
Then she says that Vaccines just make it worse. When I told her my vacinnated daughter caught the flu, puked once, and was 100% better 2 days later she didn't have anything to say except "but she still got sick! The shot did it!"
Like... your nearly dead child in the hospital, or mine that fully recovered within two days?
ChelsBony on February 14th, 2018 at 15:59 UTC »
The flu is no joke. My father was a healthy yoga practicing 47 year and got H1N1. He was in a coma for a month before we finally took him off life support.
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tactandethics on February 14th, 2018 at 15:40 UTC »
Actually we are a nonprofit and lose a little bit of money every time we give vaccines. We do it anyway because we don’t like our patients dying prematurely.