Her outrage is understandable. Here's a new site from Dr. Mercola (holistic physician) on everything swine: Link
Posted on 11/02/2009 10:37:59 AM PST by 444Flyer
School nurses mistakenly gave the swine flu vaccine to two students who didn't sign up for it - including a Brooklyn girl with epilepsy who wound up in the hospital.
"I was outraged," Naomi Troy, 26, told the Daily News after her 6-year-old daughter, Nikiyah Torres-Pierre, had a possible allergic reaction to the shot.
Officials at Public School 335 in Crown Heights called an ambulance to take Nikiyah to SUNY Downstate Medical Center when she fell ill following the arm jab.
"My stomach was hurting, and I was itching," Nikiyah said after she was released from the hospital.
The snafu and a similar mixup at a Staten Island school came in the first days of the city's in-school H1N1 vaccination program.
City officials have stressed the vaccine is safe and urged parents to sign up for it - though less than half have sent in permission slips.
Troy was waiting for advice from her family doctor on whether Nikiyah should get the shot since she takes medicine to control her epilepsy.
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Bet the trial lawyers are lining up at their door for this one.
SOB! I hope this child is okay and I will pray for recovery.
This mother should initiate a suit and hold the district, the city, the county, state and the nurse insolido.
After that some one should be...
Naomi sniffs an opportunity to make big bucks from a lawsuit. This is a crock. The mother had put in an inquiry to the girl’s doctor as to whether she should have it. The answer hadn’t come back yet, but would surely have been yes — epilepsy is not a contraindiction to the shot, and kids attending huge urban public schools, and riding public transit to and from school are at high risk for catching this flu — and the girl would have gotten the shot anyway. The photo looks very posed, and there’s no indication in the article that the girl suffered any ill effects — she was promptly released from the hospital, where she was apparently only taken as a precaution, and mom isn’t mentioning any medication or follow-up care that’s been prescribed.
Well here is one way to expand the vaccine testing population.
A young friend of ours had her family inoculated on Friday, at a local clinic. The eighteen month old baby now has a bad case of the flu with a croupy cough that kept both the baby and mother up all night. This time last year, the baby was hospitalized with a croupy cough that was associated with the flu.
I have really never thought schools should be giving any kind of medicine or shots or anything else. I know when I taught HS there were kids who went to the school RECEPTIONIST to get their meds. That just seemed plain old dumb. I would much prefer the onus to be on the parent if something goes wrong.
kids are at high risk for catching any number of the 15 strains of flu that show up each year.
Anyway, if the mortality rate for this flu is less than others (less than 1 percent of hospitalized case) why take goo in your arm, of something that has no proven efficacy or predictable side effects?
The cure could be worse
Look, we’re talking about a public school in Crown Heights here. Half the kids don’t even get FED at home.
you might want to ping the list to this new article , thanks :)
that doesn't matter... she did not give permission... the girl should not have received the shot... SUE, SUE, SUE!!!!!
So the ones who could be sued called an ambulance for no apparent reason?
There is a bigger point here. A Government worker/Public school employee gave a child with a pre-existing health condition a vaccine with unknown side effects against the wishes of her parent. That alone leaves the guilty open to litigation. And how can you question the motives of the parent based on the picture taken of she and her child?
If someone injected my six year old without my permission, I would be very irritated.
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First time I ever got the flu shot and probably the last.
Don’t they know? The only thing they don’t have to tell parents about is abortion. Oh, the kid is allergic to anesthesia? Sorry ‘bout that.
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