Virginia Family Claims H1N1 Vaccine Sickened Son

Friday, November 13, 2009

A Foxnews article reports that a 14 year old boy in Virginia, who was given the H1N1 vaccine is now experiencing a deterioration in health soon after receiving the shot. Doctors are trying to diagnose and find out why the youth is having symptoms of muscle weakness. The family claims the boys failing health is due to receiving the H1N1 shot or commonly called swine flu shot.


Bingo! You could have seen that coming. As in the past, infant and child vaccines have been the target of scrutiny over whether they have caused perfectly normal children to develop autism and other such ailments including even death, so this article does not surprise me one bit. I have been a skeptic of sorts about the whole hyped swine flu drama in the first place and I do not think we have a pandemic of sorts waiting to happen. At least I'm not worried this year, maybe next year or the year after that when the virus has gone through a few mutations.


I would have liked to have read a little more about this story, but the additional link in the story would not open up for me. The story reports the boy was given his usual seasonal flu vaccine as well as the H1N1 vaccine, but the father blames the boy’s symptoms on the H1N1 vaccine because he has not had any problems with the seasonal flu vaccine on previous occasions times four. The article describes the boy as “An avid young athlete who was unable to walk without the aid of a walker just one day after getting his flu shots. A doctor who has examined the boy is trying to determine if the boy is indeed suffering from Guillain-Barre syndrome which has on occasion caused paralysis in some victims of the disease. I have heard of this syndrome being blamed on numerous things with one being the preservative used in the vaccine and not the vaccine component itself. I think it is a preservative that only some will react to and others do not have any problems with it when added to vaccines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say in the article “About 1 in 1 million people who receive seasonal flu vaccines will be infected with GBS. The CDC adds that GBS is a condition that strikes people who have never received a flu vaccine.” The boy’s father finds this announcement hard to believe because his son has had the regular flu vaccine several times with out problems.


I knew there would probably be controversy over this H1N1 vaccine if someone who received it, got sick, because it was certainly rushed though approval by the government with changing stories from health officials about how many vaccines would be needed in a series in order to gain protection from the swine flu. Apparently there are five cases of reported Guillain-Barre syndrome in patients that have received the vaccine so far. By the time the CDC have figured out the connection between the H1N1 vaccine and health problems of people receiving the shot, it will be too late to do anything but attend the feeding frenzy the lawyers will be having.