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Article: Many parents oppose swine flu vaccine: ; Poll finds 38 percent will not give permission; some cite concern over side effects, strain severity
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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ATLANTA - As the first wave of swine flu vaccine crosses the
country, more than a third of parents don't want their kids
vaccinated, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
Some parents say they are concerned about side effects from the
new vaccine - even though nothing serious has turned up in tests so
far - while others say swine flu doesn't amount to any greater
health threat than seasonal flu.
Jackie Shea of Newtown, Conn., the mother of a 5-year-old boy
named Emmett, says the vaccine is too new and too untested.
"I will not be first in line in October to get him vaccinated,"
she said in an interview last month. "We're talking about putting an
unknown into him. I can't do that."
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