An 11-year-old Hendersonville girl has died of complications from the flu, according to family and hospital reports, and is the latest in a growing number of flu deaths that has public health officials worried.
Savannah Hyden died at 5:04 p.m. Wednesday at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, according to a hospital spokesman. She had not received a flu vaccination, her parents said.
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Natasha Renee Fiser, her mother, said that after being sickened with the flu, Savannah developed a bacterial infection that resulted in cardiac arrest.
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Hyden said he didn’t get the girl vaccinated because he was worried about side effects.
“It’s such a tough decision for the parent,” he said.
“You only think that’s for the weak and the elderly — those that don’t have the immunity to fight it off,” Fiser said. “You would never imagine that a healthy child really would need the flu shot at all.”
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