Marlene - I have to correct you.  There was more than one boy - Yes, there was a 13 year old boy last weekend from a hockey team that contracted the H1N1 flu and died, but there was also a 10 year old girl a few days before that succumbed to this virus.  About a month or two ago, there was a child under that was rushed to the hospital in the Toronto area that had passed out from a fever and died.  She was otherwise healthy and tested positive for the H1N1 virus and that was confirmed.  That is more than "ONE" child that you posted.  That is "children" like I mentioned - I know they are a few out of a huge population, but the scary thing that people have to remember is that these were PREVIOUSLY HEALTHY CHILDREN WITH NO PRIOR MEDICAL HISTORY - meaning, you don't know if your child WILL get it or HOW they will react to it - so why wouldn't you vaccinate to prevent this uncertainty?  Please read the news stories before you assume that I making false statments!

Hero4 - I apologize, 3 out of 4 million is clearly a totally different story..

Hero4 - I am not interested in fighting with you.  This should be a place where we can come to find support, not grief.
I hope that everyone here makes the decision that is right for them/their families, and that things work out for the best for all of us.
I agree, 3 children dying from anything is 3 too many.  My point is that statistically, lots of things have killed 3 people in our city in the last two months, and that if you look at the numbers, H1N1 is of no greater threat than many other things that we don't even think about every day.  I hate to think of any of us living in fear and anxiety for our kids' safety, we do enough of that as it is.  Do we need to have that compounded by fear and anxiety over H1N1?