Families Fighting Flu is a non-profit organization made up of families and pediatricians who have experienced first-hand loss of a child to the flu or have had a child experience severe medical complications from the flu. We are dedicated to providing comfort to one another and to encouraging everyone to vaccinate their children against the flu every year.

Whether it is the difficulty of walking past a now-empty bedroom, or the sadness in never seeing a young niece or nephew celebrate another birthday, losing a loved one has left an incredible emptiness in these individuals' lives. This site is a way for individuals to realize that they are not alone in this fight against the flu and to channel their grief into helping to save others by encouraging annual flu vaccination for all children in the United States.

Through this site, Families Fighting Flu members can now work together as a united front to improve the rates of pediatric flu vaccination and help reduce the number of pediatric illnesses and deaths caused by the flu. Clearly, there is a growing need to inform society about the importance of vaccinating children against the flu each year. Hopefully, through the organization’s efforts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) — the group of experts who provide advice and guidance to the CDC on the most effective means to help prevent vaccine-preventable diseases — will recommend annual influenza vaccination for all children to ensure that parents get their children vaccinated against the flu every year.