The Sun took an in-depth look at the life and death of 14-year-old Destinee Parker, the first child in Maryland with no underlying medical problems to die from swine flu. The staff examined why swine flu is hitting children hard, looking in particular at the case of a 2-year-old who became desperately ill. Since pneumonia is a common complication of H1N1 flu, we took a look at the pneumonia vaccine – and found it underused.
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