Mom Warns After 'Healthy' 6-Year-Old Daughter Dies from Flu: 'It Shouldn't Have Happened'

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Mom Warns After 'Healthy' 6-Year-Old Daughter Dies from Flu: 'It Shouldn't Have Happened'

“We did everything right. Every one of her doctors did everything right.”
By Char Adams December 11, 2018


Christy Pugh and David Splan never thought that a simple runny nose and fever would lead to their 6-year-old daughter’s death.

Pugh and Splan, both 37, are working to raise awareness about pediatric flu after their daughter, Emma Splan, died from complications of the virus on Feb. 18 — just months after she had gotten the flu shot.

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“It makes no sense. She was vaccinated. She died. It shouldn’t have happened, but it did,” Pugh, of Norwalk, Connecticut, tells PEOPLE, adding that her daughter was otherwise “healthy.”

https://www.health.com/cold-flu-sinus/mom-warns-flu-dangers

[Sanguine]

How awful.

[Applewood]

Flu is dangerous for the very young, the elderly and those with chronic illnesses.  From the article it appears that the little girl should have had two shots instead off one.  Unfortunately, the flu vaccine is not a 100% guarantee that one can avoid getting the flu, and it might have been that even if she had had the second shot, the flu may have killed her anyway. 

Very sad.  Prayers for the grieving family.