vaccine issue....

The issue of H1N1 vaccine was flaming as the local news station had tried their best effort to report single complaint by the public. First was the "needle vertigo" phenomena . One of the news reported had created the terms : it all started when bunch of school kids noted with giddiness and vertigo after the jab. The reporter had used the term and later all the media had started to massively report it ( newspaper and round the clock over the news channel). I had a bad tour of injection due to the report – there was this school with 2 handful of primary school student experiencing vertigo after the vaccination…the student was pre-hypnotized by the news that vertigo was expected after the jab.

Later more and more negative news came out. One of the most prominent was a child of a O+G specialist. The child had suffered from rashes 1 days after the injection and his condition had deteriorated later and gone into septic shock. The cause of death was sepsis. Specialist from the department of health had speculated that the child died of sepsis cause by immune defect. The father had called up some rep and held a few press conferences accusing the govt of releasing vaccine which was not fully tested. They had blamed the death of their beloved child on the vaccine. I pity the family however despised their act. The accuse they made was based on nothing. The vaccine was packed into 40 doses per ampule, that means another 39 students had taken the injection. If the vaccine itself is the cause, there must be some reaction noted among the rest of the students who received the same ampule of vaccine. That however brought the issue back to the processing of giving the injection – issue of aspirating and injecting(in my opinion, this was the most likely cause). However there would be no evidence to prove so….so back to the square zero --- sepsis . Anyone could get a sepsis just like that, a small wound or some unclean food…

After this incidence , patient who died or developed illness( stroke, weakness…sepsis…) few days(or maybe weeks later) after the injection started to complain to the media that they were also victim and wanted the govt to grant them an explaination(or maybe compensation )….

Is the vaccine safe ? All I could said was a local doggie team magazine had reported few months ago that some of the eggs used to produce the local vaccine were not up to the standard(not sterilized enough ….)

I felt relief as xian and yun did not have to undertake the vaccine as they was infected and cured….