Girl Gets Flu Shot - Now She Can Only Walk Backwards

[Ji@nBing]

WTF?!?!? It almost seems fake, but since it's on the news and such, I guess it must be real. Really makes you think twice about getting vaccinated with all these crazy side effects.

Oh, andI'd hit it.

Edited October 24, 2009 by Minifig
The story said flu shot, not "swine flu" shot. Correcting title.

[null_]

What the hell? That's pretty messed up.

[yxz]

WTF?!?!? It almost seems fake, but since it's on the news and such, I guess it must be real. Really makes you think twice about getting vaccinated with all these crazy side effects.

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Edited February 10, 2010 by rm20010

[Ji@nBing]

Yeah, yeah. I know. I meant like it's not some random amateur youtube video that someone made.?

[Knightwolf20024]

this wasnt a swine flu shot it was a basic flu shot.

[O.G]

But it's good for you, take it. Crap like this will only happen to a few people in a million, so your odds of not getting f*d up are pretty good. Oh, and if you do happen to end up like this chick you can be glad of the fact that you and people like you will not be able to sue the manufacturer, so you won't need to worry about lawyers taking all that tax payers money they got for mutilating you and you'll get to pay for your own health care for the rest of your miserable life. But hey, you avoided a bad case of the flu, so, er, profit?

[hdood]

WTF?!?!? It almost seems fake, but since it's on the news and such, I guess it must be real. Really makes you think twice about getting vaccinated with all these crazy side effects.

No. Something does not have to be real because it's on the news. In fact, the news very often gets things completely wrong. That she's suffering with it (psychogenic or otherwise) is true, the link to the vaccine or the implication that the vaccine causes it is a stretch. At most (and there is no evidence for it, not even in this case), the vaccine could have acted as a trigger for something she already had.

The swine flu vaccine does not have any "crazy side effects" listed. In fact, you can find far worse side effects on common drugs that you've probably taken more than once, you just never bother to read them.

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

Damn, that's awful. I knew there were side effects to pretty much every vaccine and drug but wow. I had no idea it could be this bad. I'm guessing some part of her brain or spine swelled up. Poor woman though.

[lt8480]

You're more likely to get hurt by swine flu than getting a side effect (else they wouldn't use it) and also there's a chance this is some other completely unrelated issue that just coincidently happened following the shot - when you mass do things coincidences are bound to happen.

[logicwin]

she can talk fine when she runs like WTF

[hdood]

But hey, you avoided a bad case of the flu, so, er, profit?

The issue is that seasonal flu kills pretty much only the high-risk groups, and especially the old, whereas the swine flu also hits younger people outside of the risk groups at a much higher rate. That's the concern. It's killing people who still have their entire lives ahead of them.

And to repeat what has been said, this woman did not get the swine flu vaccine. She did not get the swine flu vaccine. It was not the swine flu vaccine that she got.. Not just that, but no medical evidence is presented here that shows a link between the non-swine flu vaccine she got, and her ailment. None. You are all letting your emotions take over.

[undu]

A shot at a grocery store?

that's messed up

[O.G]

The swine flu vaccine does not have any "crazy side effects" listed. In fact, you can find far worse side effects on common drugs that you've probably taken more than once, you just never bother to read them.

What none? None at all? How about this list of side effects for Pandemrix, approved just this month for H1N1

The frequency of possible side effects listed below is defined using the following convention:

Very common (affects more than 1 user in 10)

Common (affects 1 to 10 users in 100)

Uncommon (affects 1 to 10 users in 1,000)

Rare (affects 1 to 10 users in 10,000)

Very rare (affects less than 1 user in 10,000)

The side effects listed below have occurred with Pandemrix in clinical studies in adults, including the

elderly and in children aged from 3-9 years::

Very common:

• Headache

• Tiredness

• Pain, redness, swelling or a hard lump at the injection site

• Fever

• Aching muscles, joint pain

Common:

• Warmth, itching or bruising at the injection site

• Increased sweating, shivering, flu-like symptoms

• Swollen glands in the neck, armpit or groin

Uncommon:

• Tingling or numbness of the hands or feet

• Sleepiness

• Dizziness

• Diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach pain, feeling sick

• Itching, rash

• Generally feeling unwell

• Sleeplessness

In children aged 3-9 years fever occurred more often when the adult dose (0.5 ml of vaccine) was

given compared to administration of half the adult dose (0.25 ml of vaccine). Also fever occurred

more often in children aged 6-9 years compared to the children aged 3-5 years.

These side effects usually disappear within 1-2 days without treatment. If they persist, CONSULT

YOUR DOCTOR.

The side effects listed below have occurred in the days or weeks after vaccination with vaccines given

routinely every year to prevent flu. These side effects may occur with Pandemrix.

Uncommon

• Generalised skin reactions including urticaria (hives)

Rare

• Allergic reactions leading to a dangerous decrease of blood pressure, which, if untreated, may

lead to shock. Doctors are aware of this possibility and have emergency treatment available for

use in such cases.

• Fits

• Severe stabbing or throbbing pain along one or more nerves

• Low blood platelet count which can result in bleeding or bruising

Very rare

• Vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels which can cause skin rashes, joint pain and kidney

problems)

• Neurological disorders such as encephalomyelitis (inflammation of the central nervous system),

neuritis (inflammation of nerves) and a type of paralysis known a Guillain-Barr? Syndrome

Product Information - EMEA

Yeah, not crazy in the slightest. Need anyone be reminded that the vaccination program in 1976 killed more people that the flu did? Take it by all means but if you end up a dribbling idiot you have noone to blame but yourself.

[aussiefloyd_fan]

shot giver might if put the shot in the vein rather than the muscle...... Id bee looking for law suits in the 7-8figure range

[KoL Veteran]

WOW poor woman :(

[hdood]

Yeah, not crazy in the slightest.

Those are extremely mild side effects, almost to the point of ridiculousness. Headache? Tiredness? Redness? Have you seen the side effects for Aspirin? Everything from nausea to internal bleeding and seizures.

Take it by all means but if you end up a dribbling idiot you have noone to blame but yourself.

I have already taken it. Pandemrix in fact. You cannot get Dystonia from the swine flu vaccine. Stop your hysterical knee-jerk reaction.

[iamawesomewicked]

I believe its psychogenic, hopefully she get's help for her mental issues.

[O.G]

Those are extremely mild side effects, almost to the point of ridiculousness. Headache? Tiredness? Redness? Have you seen the side effects for Aspirin? Everything from nausea to internal bleeding and seizures.

I have already taken it. Pandemrix in fact. You cannot get Dystonia from the swine flu vaccine. Stop your hysterical knee-jerk reaction.

Great for you, here's a clap. Clap. Now I'd say a 1 in 10000 chance of ending up a retard is pretty serious, and that is from Glaxo's own info, their data. Now can you show me that it is safer, i.e. I have a better chance of dying from swine flu than I do ending up in a wheel chair blowing into a straw, by all means provide me with those figures. You've got 1:10000 to beat, go.

[hdood]

Great for you, here's a clap. Clap. Now I'd say a 1 in 10000 chance of ending up a retard is pretty serious, and that is from Glaxo's own info, their data.

That is nonsense. Care to present your documentation that 1 in 10,000 end up severely handicapped? Hundreds of thousands have gotten it over here now, with no adverse reactions registered so far, and this is in a country with public health care and state liability for injuries caused.

[O.G]

That is nonsense. Care to present your documentation that 1 in 10,000 end up severely handicapped?

I already have, so you've just shown your inability to read. Try again its only a page back.

[Elliott]

Holy crap. :( That's horrible.

[InterceptorX]

I'm sorry, but I call BS. And not everything that is on the news is true.

[hdood]

I already have, so you've just shown your inability to read. Try again its only a page back.

You are lying. You know that is not what your quote says. It says that based on other flu vaccines, it's estimated that 1 in 10,000 have a more severe reactions (such as allergic reactions), not that they end up "drooling retards."

[11222111]

I'm sorry, but I call BS. And not everything that is on the news is true.

and its FOX news.

[Minifig]

I've taken the time to edit "Swine" off your subject header OP, as there's no significant proof that it was a Swine Flu shot.