What a surprise; a politician who doesn't expect to pay for their wrongdoing and believes the laws of the land do not apply to them. Who knew.

The vaccine was discontinued in the United States for the DTaP, a different formulation of the vaccine. It is not banned.

There is nowhere in this story that says an outdated vaccine was administered. Outdated in the context of the subject matter would mean expired. The mother never alleged that an expired vaccine was given to her child. As for what is discontinued in the United States, that typically has little to do with the efficacy or safety of a drug or in this case, a vaccine. Many perfectly safe and effective medications, etc exist and are used worldwide that the US may not use in its market - mostly for financial and trade reasons. In fact, many drugs used in the United States are far less safe than their counterparts used in other markets. All vaccines have the potential for side effects, some fatal. There is nil to insufficient evidence in this story to draw definitive conclusions about causation in this matter. Such would be necessary before castigating the doctors here in The Bahamas who treated this child.

What also was critically omitted in this story is whether the child already had primary HLH, a genetic or inherited condition. It is possible that if the child did have this condition, the parents may not have known. The mother said her child underwent chemo and steroid therapy, the standard course of treatment for primary HLH. Secondary or acquired HLH can be triggered by vaccines as well underlying illness, but again, more information would be required to make a determination about causation. i.e, whether it was a vaccine(s) itself, the schedule thereof, the administration thereof, or none of the above.

> The lesson here is to make sure they don't get out dated vaccines and, especially, not a bunch together.

The story never said anything about outdated vaccines being administered, nor was any proof or evidence cited to support an allegation of the schedule of vaccines being the cause of the child's illness.

This shameless pandering by persons who themselves are gay never ceases to nauseate me.

I wholeheartedly agree.

I also raised the same question. It seems that the delay was intentional on the part of the parents because they wanted the DTap instead of the DTP, which they are of course entitled to want. It seems the mother is American or has American ties given the mention of the US Embassy in the story; so I wondered if they considered taking their child there to get the desired shots on time. Even still, there is no evidence or proof cited in this story to support the newspaper's allegations that the schedule of shots given was the direct and sole cause of the child's illness.

There are many aspects to this story that either were not included and accounted for or needed proper context, but this is a family story of the writer after all, so perhaps that is too much to ask for. As just one example, the vaccination DTap itself has potentially dangerous adverse effects. To make the assertion that the vaccinations were "bungled" imputes blame where it might not be warranted. I could cite other issues but would probably be accused of being insensitive. Glad to know the child is doing much better.

I demand to know why it took the FNM months to seemingly even know about this, and to say something about it.