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Scary reaction to flu shot in Loudoun...
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Anonymous
| Read the story carefully. It *may* have been a rare reaction to the flu shot, or it may have been from a number of other reasons. There is no direct evidence that the flu shot caused her condition. |
Anonymous
Oh brother. And there is no direct evidence that flu kills either, right? They were probably going to die anyway? You can't have it both ways. |
Anonymous
Um, nice try. Flu can be definitively diagnosed, as can complications from the flu, and cause of death can be determined. The dystonia discussed in the article can have a number of origins and cannot be definitively pinned to the flu shot - did you not see the part about it possibly being hereditary (meaning a genetic problem), among other possible causes? In this case the doctors *think* it may have been an adverse reaction to the flu shot - but what evidence is there to support that? Correlation does not equal causation. |
Anonymous
| What is the OP "trying" exactly? |
Anonymous
| whatever watch as these type of stories continue to pop up over the next few months. |
Anonymous
| They don't have a clue what happened to her. The onset of her symptoms was 10 days after the shot. Even the Dystonia Foundation is encouraging vaccination of people who have Dystonia. These doctors are grasping at this flu shot because they can't come up with anything else. |
Anonymous
Don't you mean, "What is the OP Trying exactly?" ?? |
Anonymous
If the seasonal influenza vaccine was a cause of dystonia, it would be a documented side affect by now. |
Anonymous
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If anything this makes me feel better about the shot - as these things are clearly getting reported. Heartbreaking for this family, but this is rare. I would bet, rarer than dying of the flu. That's the thing - one in one million, where as thousands of folks die each year from the flu. Both are not common, but both happen.
On another note, did anyone watch "House" on Monday? Spoiler alert - This was the rare disease they thought the kid had (turns out he didn't). Weird. |
Anonymous
| This is a terrible story. I don't see the debate here, even the doctors at fairfax and hopkins agree that the flu shot caused this condition. |
Anonymous
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Wow! Thank you for posting this.
It does specifically say: "Her doctors at Inova Fairfax and Johns Hopkins hospitals agree that it was likely the adverse reaction to the flu shot that caused her condition." What a horrible story. |
Anonymous
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I do feel like people are self selecting info from the story.
"Desiree, of Ashburn, is a one-in-a-million person...She is “the one.” Apparently, the one person in a million, according to the Centers for Disease Control, who may have developed severe and possibly life-threatening side effects from getting a seasonal flu vaccine seven weeks ago at a Safeway in Reston." ....Then, the statistics: 36,000 die annually of the seasonal flu; 200,000 people will be hospitalized with the flu." More people will die or of the flu than will have complications. No one is saying the flu shot is perfectly safe, what experts are saying are that the risk of the shot is less than the risk of the flu. You can't self select the stats, unless you are one of the folks who thinks flu is a conspirary or something and no one dies of it. In which case, pointless to have this debate. |
Anonymous
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Sorry - meant to say more people will die from the flu than have complications from the shot.
A lot more. |
Anonymous
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Well, that statistic of 36,000 people dying of the flu should probably be examined also.
How many of those people were young, healthy people? I'm sure some of those who died from the flu were older or immunocompromised. I'm just glad we have a choice in this. I know it was mandated in NY that health care workers get a flu shot, and that is just wrong. If you want to get one, that's great, but the flu is not the same as Polio or Rubella. I'm so grateful that I can chose not to get it for my family. |