Lucio Satar: A flu vaccine story
Lucio Satar, a healthy eight-year-old boy in Minnesota, began feeling sick with the flu on Jan. 24. He died Wednesday of pneumonia, a complication from the flu.
Across the U.S., about 100 children die every year from flu complications, according to Patsy Stinchfield, a pediatric nurse practitioner who leads the Minnesota Immunization Practices Advisory Committee.
Advice to parents: Please have your families vaccinated against the flu.
Read the story in the Lacrosse Tribune.