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Springboro, Ohio ?After her 5-year-old son died of flu at the beginning of the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, Serese Shampine Marotta has made it a mission to educate other parents about the devastating affects the disease can have on unvaccinated children.
Marotta, who grew up in Cicero and now lives with her family in Springboro, Ohio, in May filmed a public service announcement for the New York State Department of Health that encourages people to vaccinate their children.
?I think people don?t traditionally think of it as such a serious disease. That?s all the more why we wanted to share Joseph?s story. People don?t understand how many healthy children die each year from the flu,? Marotta said this afternoon.
The flu kills nearly 100 American children under five years of age every year, according to Families Fighting Flu, a vaccination advocacy group.
Marotta and her husband, Joseph, are members of Families Fighting Flu, an organization that educates people about the need to get flu vaccinations.
The state Department of Health received a grant from the national Centers for Disease Control to create public service announcements about flu vaccinations.
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Marotta, who grew up in Cicero and now lives with her family in Springboro, Ohio, in May filmed a public service announcement for the New York State Department of Health that encourages people to vaccinate their children.
?I think people don?t traditionally think of it as such a serious disease. That?s all the more why we wanted to share Joseph?s story. People don?t understand how many healthy children die each year from the flu,? Marotta said this afternoon.
The flu kills nearly 100 American children under five years of age every year, according to Families Fighting Flu, a vaccination advocacy group.
Marotta and her husband, Joseph, are members of Families Fighting Flu, an organization that educates people about the need to get flu vaccinations.
The state Department of Health received a grant from the national Centers for Disease Control to create public service announcements about flu vaccinations.
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