Vaccination for healthy 7 years old

[KBold]

Hi everyone, apologies for starting another thread on this. We've been offered the vaccine fir our son as my wife has MS. She has had the vaccine but the view is our son having it will reduce her potential exposure risk further. I was happy with it but after the inevitable internet searches (curse the web sometimes) I'm now concerned. I understand though that soon all children will have it routinely so I'm trying to convince myself it's a good thing he's getting it this year. Anyone here who knows of a good reason for him not to have it? Obviously I want my wife to be protected but I don't want to put our son at any risk. Any opinions would be appreciated.

Regards,.....Keith

Bruffin,

"It is called a cytokine storm as was why most of the people who died in 1918 were young and fit."

You've attributed the death of many young people in the 1918 epidemic to cytokine storms and posted a quote (which you still haven't given a source for - wiki?) that said "Most deaths occurred within the first few days after infection". I've given you a link showing that wasn't in fact the case - less than 5% of people died within a few days. What do you think I've misunderstood there?

"Just because they died 2 weeks after the first symptoms of flu doesnt mean that pneomonia was in those first two weeks."

What are you saying here? Is this a typo or are you now trying to say that they didn't die from pneumonia if they died after two weeks?

I'm not sure why you are telling me about the healthy people who died from swine flu recently. Yes, it can kill healthy people. I haven't denied that. It doesn't have to be a cytokine storm that kills them either (they are quite rare) Are you disagreeing with me that those 'healthy young' people who were coming back from the war/living during the war were as 'healthy and fit' as we are today?

were not as 'healthy and fit