SchaferAutismReport: Parents Weigh The Risk of Vaccinating Children For H1N1

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Parents Weigh The Risk of Vaccinating Children For H1N1

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PUBLIC HEALTH

Parents Weigh The Risk

of Vaccinating Children For H1N1

Some doctors decry the decision of not getting the shot, but acknowledge that

autism fears -- as well as immunity issues -- are in play.

By Healy, LA Times. tinyurl.com/nht2pn

Tammy , the 28-year-old mother of a

toddler, is not given to belief in conspiracy theories and is not the type to

be rattled by the phrase " pandemic flu. " The Menifee, Calif.,

resident is the kind of mom who gathers a good deal of her medical

intelligence on government websites, trusts a friend who is a nurse practitioner

and is raising her bright, strong-willed daughter with all the confidence of

a former nanny and the second-born in a family of six.

She's the kind of mom who thinks that when the

vaccine for H1N1 influenza becomes available for her daughter, she may just take

a pass on it.

" It's a different brand of flu, but it is

still the flu, and I think she's already built a pretty strong immune

system, " says of her blond, blue-eyed 14-month-old. At the same

time, the tests on the vaccine in development against H1N1 aren't even

completed yet, and that, to , sounds like a formula for unforeseen

problems down the road.

" I'm really more concerned about the

long-term effects and lifelong damage it could do to her, " says.

So for now, at least, she's made her peace

with the prospect that her daughter, Coral, could have a few miserable days

and a lifetime immunity from this novel strain of flu.

She'll seek her pediatrician's opinion next

month when Coral is due for a checkup, says. " But I don't think

it'll sway me at this point. "

As the nation braces for a season of pandemic

contagion, omnipresent vaccine clinics and debate over healthcare reform, the

myriad doubts of parents and citizens like represent a new and potent

strain of vaccine ambivalence.

Physicians say they are hearing young parents

-- many of whom have neither seen nor suffered any of the once-common

diseases of childhood -- express doubts about inoculating their children

against the novel strain of influenza.

This new generation of vaccine skeptics has

been forged by the stubbornly persistent belief -- discredited by a welter of

studies -- in a link between

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