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Baby Dies Following Vaccination

Childhood vaccinations suspended at Genesis pediatric clinics

      By Kia tinyurl.com/4nxttd

      Quad Cities (Illinois, Iowa) - Wednesday all Genesis Medical Center

Pediatric Clinics suspended their use of childhood vaccines. The decision comes

after a baby received routine vaccinations on Tuesday, then died several hours

later at home.  Genesis Health Group says its suspending pediatric vaccinations

merely as a precaution until the cause of the baby's death can be determined.

      Tuesday morning a 4-month-old baby boy came to the Genesis East Pediatrics

Clinic in Silvis for a routine checkup that included several vaccinations. The

seemingly healthy baby boy was brought in for a " well baby " visit, that's a

check up that includes routine vaccinations like pneumonia, and DPT, which is

for diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus. Then Tuesday night his

parents found him dead with no obvious cause for his death. Now all childhood

vaccinations at Genesis clinics in Silvis, Bettendorf and Davenport have been

temporarily suspended. A Genesis spokesman says hospital administration have no

reason to believe the vaccines caused the baby's death, but they want to be

overly cautious.

      " They'll be a coroner's examination of the baby and we'll get a report. At

that time we'll most likely resume our vaccinations, because we don't think

there was a link between them and the child passing, " says Craig , Genesis

Health Group spokesman.

      Genesis has also sent the batch of vaccines the boy received off to the

Food and Drug Administration and to the makers of the vaccines for testing. This

is the first time Genesis has ever suspended pediatric vaccinations at it's

clinics.