Kids with neurological disorders may be more likely to die during flu season

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(CBS/AP) Federal health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning that kids with neurological disorders face a high risk of death if they get the flu.

A study by CDC scientists looked at more than 300 influenza-related deaths in children during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. It found 60 percent had an underlying condition, and two-thirds of those kids had a neurologic disorder such as cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, or epilepsy.

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The CDC's Dr. Georgina Peacock, a pediatrician and coauthor of the study, says flu is especially dangerous for kids who have problems with "muscle function, lung function or difficulty coughing, swallowing or clearing fluids from their airways."

"These problems are sometimes experienced by children with neurologic disorders," added Peacock in a CDC press release.

Seventy-five percent of children with a neurologic condition who died from the 2009 pandemic also had an additional high risk condition that increased their risk for influenza complications, such as a pulmonary disorder, metabolic disorder, heart disease or a chromosomal abnormality.

With this year's flu season about to begin, the CDC is joining the American Academy of Pediatrics, Families Fighting Flu and Family Voices to stress the importance of flu vaccine for these children who are most vulnerable to influenza.

"Partnering with the American Academy of Pediatrics, influenza advocacy groups and family led-organizations CAN help prevent influenza in children at highest risk," CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said in the press release.

The CDC has more on seasonal flu.

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[citygirl33]

This kind of propoganda is funded by "those" who will do anything to reduce the population. Vaccines are very very bad news, especially for those with neurological disorders. Vaccines are excitotoxic, which means they excite your neurons and immune system to toxic, damaging levels. Stay far far away from them.

[Vacunas_Autismo]

The paper: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/08/24/peds.2011-3343.abstract?sid=fb710982-7ac6-40aa-b666-ee37b0a1fe80

This study is a magnificent example of manipulation and framing.

"Intellectual disability" is a psychological profile not traceable to a neurological disorder. However, the authors have bundled it together with true neurological disorders, such as palsy and
epilepsy, confounding the statistics of all three.

Also, much more significant risk factors such as pulmonary disorders are present in the dead (48%).

The authors use this to frame deaths by pulmonary, palsy and epilepsy complications onto the "intellectually disable", falsely portraying them as a risk group.

The "intellectually disable" represent a significant chunk of the population (about 2%), and their misrepresentation as a risk group can expand the market of unnecessary flu vaccines by a succulent 2%.