Elderly flu-shots and leukemia

[Guest guest]

My grandmother gets the flu shot every year ( I can't

do anything about it). But she developed leukemia this

last fall. Has anyone seen a link between the two.

--- Vida Khan <vidamarino@...> wrote:

> The link is not working and I want to send the

> article to my husband.

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> > http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article

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asp?cu_no=2 & item_no=194671 & version=1 & template_id=40 & parent_id=22

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> > Two children die after polio vaccination

> > Published: Wednesday, 9 January, 2008, 02:24 AM

> Doha Time

> >

> > PATNA: Two children, including a two-day-old baby,

> died after being

> given

> > polio vaccines in Bihar, health officials said

> yesterday.

> >

> > The two-day-old girl died on Monday in Munger

> town, about 150km

> from the

> > state capital Patna, soon after she was given

> polio drops.

> >

> > " My daughter died within half-an-hour after she

> was given the polio

> drops, "

> > the girl's father Yamuna Mahto said.

> >

> > Mahto said he and his wife took the newborn to a

> government

> hospital for BCG

> > vaccination but officials forcibly gave her polio

> drops that

> resulted in her

> > death.

> > A three-year-old girl in the same town also died

> on Monday after

> she was

> > given polio drops.

> >

> > Her father Ramashish Singh said his daughter was

> given the polio

> drops by

> > hospital employees although he told them she had

> been brought for

> treatment

> > of cough and cold.

> >

> > Parents of both children have demanded strong

> action against the

> hospital

> > officials.

> >

> > Reports said several children have fallen ill in

> Gaya, Patna,

> Darbhanga and

> > Munger districts after being given polio drops.

> >

> > " There was nothing wrong with the drops but we

> will investigate the

> matter, "

> > Munger civil surgeon Bhola Prasad Singh said.

> >

> > Last year, Bihar recorded 244 new polio cases, the

> highest since

> the polio

> > immunisation drive was launched in the state

> nearly a decade ago.

> >

> > Experts have blamed the rise in polio cases on

> devastating floods

> and the

> > failure of the polio eradication campaign in

> reaching out to

> marginalised

> > people in far-flung areas.

> >

> > Bihar recorded 158 polio cases in 1998 when the

> polio immunisation

> drive

> > started, and subsequently 123 in 1999, 49 in 2000,

> 22 in 2001, 121

> in 2002,

> > 18 in 2003, 39 in 2004, 30 in 2005 and 61 in 2006.

> >

> > It was found that even children vaccinated against

> polio were

> getting

> > infected with the disease.- IANS

> >

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