Flu can be deadly

MY FAMILY is testimony to the fact young children should be vaccinated against flu for fear of infecting the older generation (Mail).

Last year, four generations were living together when my three-yearold granddaughter seemed unwell.

A few days later, her great-grandparents, in their 80s, picked up the bug. My 60-year- old husband and parents ended up in hospital with a flu-type virus commonly transmitted by children at nursery.

My husband felt better after a few days, my father developed pneumonia, but recovered, and my mother was taken to intensive care with pneumonia, sepsis and heart failure. She died a couple of months later.

If this vaccine is harmless to children and simple to administer, I would advise parents to consider it.

LYNDA MEARS, Preston, Lancs.