Teen dies from flu after receiving
flu shot
Monday, February 18, 2013 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
A second Minnesota teenager has reportedly died from complications of infection
with influenza Type A during this current flu season, prompting health officials
across the state to urge the public to get flu shots for their own protection.
But missing from many of the news reports on this tragedy
is the fact that the child in question, 14-year-old Carly Christenson, had
already been vaccinated for influenza before flu season even started, proving
the utter failure of flu shots to protect against the flu.
As reported by CBS 4 News in Minnesota, young Carly passed away on January 8,
2013, not long after she was admitted to urgent care with a bad sore throat.
Believing the symptoms to stem from a mild infection, doctors at the response
center gave Carly a prescription for Prednisone, a powerful steroid drug used to
treat inflammation, and sent her on her way. But by the next morning, things for
Carly took a serious turn for the worse.
According to reports, Carly's sore throat evolved into a serious fever that
included shortness of breath and wheezing. Her lungs filled with fluid not long
after that, and she had to be rushed to the hospital to have a heart and lung
bypass with an ACMO machine. In the days that followed, Carly was given regular
blood transfusions, but these were ultimately not enough -- she died just a few
days later.
Misplaced faith in the flu shot
On the first day when Carly was admitted to urgent care, both her parents and
the doctors at the clinic were reportedly not all that concerned about the
child's mild throat infection, as she had reportedly already been vaccinated for
the flu back in August. The fact that Carly had gotten a flu shot, in other
words, was seen by Carly's family and her doctors as a shield of protection for
the girl -- after all, authorities would not recommend flu shots if they did not
actually work, right?
This misplaced faith in flu shots ultimately provided a false hope for Carly's
family that she would be protected against the flu, a faith that was ultimately
shattered by the reality of the complete ineffectiveness of the flu shot.
Immediately after Carly's death, authorities actually tried to deny that Carly
died from the flu, referring to her condition as "flu-like." The head of the
Minnesota Health Department, Kris Ehresmann, even went so far as to claim that
she "could not confirm" that Carly had ever even had a flu shot, even though
other sources had already confirmed that she had, indeed, gotten the shot.
Still others have since tried to reassure the public that flu shots still work,
and that Carly's death is some kind of medical anomaly. But the science speaks
for itself -- in a best case scenario, flu shots provide protection for only
about 1.5 out of every 100 people. The other 98.5 people who get flu shots are
needlessly exposed to toxic adjuvants and viral materials that could cause them
to develop the flu, or worse.
Consider the case of seven-year-old Kaylynne Matten of Vermont as evidence of
the dangers of the flu shot. As reported by investigative journalist Christina
England over at Vactruth.com, young Kaylynne died last year in her mother's arms
just four days after receiving a flu shot at an annual checkup. According to
Kaylynne's parents, the young girl, who had no pre-existing health conditions
and was a very healthy child, developed a serious headache and fever the day
after getting her flu shot. Three days later, Kaylynne suddenly stopped
breathing and died without warning in her mother's arms.
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