How sad...

Get the flu shot. It is dangerous now, the flu does still kill hundreds of thousands of people per year. Even people who are young and healthy can be killed by the flu.

Side effects like this one are exceptionally rare and in this case it may well be a coincidence. I mean has the illness actually been linked to the flu shot except for being in the same timeframe?

Oh gosh, that is horrible. I died a little,

Wow, I actually felt bad when I watched that.

supermario128 said: That is just awful and I know her life will never be the same again, but for some reason I laughed when she stopped running and tried walking. Am I a bad person?

I laughed too. But I know I'm a bad person already. Welcome to the ranks.

Wow thats horrible i feel sorry for her.

Is there any scientific evidence that the disease was caused by the vaccine?

There never is.

The only reason I'm not getting the swine flu vaccine is that I've already had the swine flu: I got my immunity the hard way. Personally, I'd have preferred the shot.

In university I was working as a security guard on the night shift listening to "Coast to Coast AM with George Norry" (which is a show that is almost exclusively filled with people’s personal delusions, but is strangely entertaining at 2am) and one of the shows was on the risks of immunization. At the time I was dating a girl in Biological Science who had just completed a course on immunology and I asked her about a bunch of the risks presented in the show.

The thing that surprised me the most was that every claim made in the show was accurate. Every time you get vaccinated you’re (essentially) treating your immune system to over-react to something that doesn’t present any risk, and with every vaccine there is a chance that the immune system will target cells within your body and attack them for no particular reason which leads to the most serious side-effects (like the one in the story); at the same time, being that allergies are also an immune reaction to something that is not really a risk there is evidence to support a link over-immunization with more allergies.

Now, I want to be clear, I think immunization is a great way to protect people against diseases when there is a high risk of them catching it and it is severe enough to justify the immunization. The question that should be asked that won’t be (by most people) is why would you give a (very) healthy 20 something woman a flu-shot?

@Happy. So she doesn't get the flu? Also it prevents her from spreading the flu to people who are more at risk from it.

The risks of an severe adverse reaction to a vaccine are astronomically low and despite flu being of a low health risk to a healthy 20 year old, it is still far more dangerous than the vaccine itself.