Teen gets Guillain-Barre syndrome after flu shot
by Richard Seah
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A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu.
Jordan McFarland, a high school athlete from Alexandria, Va., left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children Tuesday night in a wheelchair nearly a week after developing severe headaches, muscle spasms and weakness in his legs following a swine flu shot. He will likely need the assistance of a walker for four to six weeks, plus extensive physical therapy.
“The doctor said I’ll recover fully, but it’s going to take some time,” the teenager said.
Jordan is among the first people in the nation to report developing the potentially life-threatening muscle disorder after receiving the H1N1 vaccine this fall.
So far, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received five reports of GBS in people who received the H1N1 vaccine since Oct. 6, not including Jordan’s case, said Dr. Claudia J. Vellozzi, deputy director for immunization safety. Out of about 40 million doses of H1N1 vaccine available to date, that’s a far lower rate of GBS than the 1 case that develops in every 1 million people who receive the regular flu vaccine.
“It’s much less than we’d expect,” she said, adding that many cases go unreported.
In 1976, about 1 additional case of GBS developed in every 100,000 people who were vaccinated against the swine flu, according to the CDC.
Another “coincidence”?
Guillian-Barre Syndrome is a very serious crippling disease, yet government health authorities think it is okay for one out of every 1 million people receiving the flu shot — or even one in 100,000 as in the case of the 1976 swine flu vaccine — to be so cruelly struck down.
And what do they do when a person falls victim, within hours of receiving a flu vaccine? They say there is “no link” and that a few hundred people develop Guillain-Barre syndrome each year anyway. They even use the incident to assert the “safety” of flu vaccines, saying the rate of GBS is “lower than expected”.
If you, or your loved one falls victim, will you accept that there is no link? That it is just another coincidence?
Posted on February 7th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
As with any inoculations, some will be affected.
However, we should not devaluate all the millions whose health has been spared from debilitation deases.