Did H1N1 Vaccine Cause Paralysis in Shreveport 5-Year Old?

It's a parent's nightmare: Your child is walking one day and then one day later, suddenly cannot walk. That's what happened to one Shreveport little girl. 5-year old Hannah Pham is paralyzed from the waist down. "I think it's from the H1N1 flu shot. She was born healthy, nothing wrong with her" says her father. Her parents say on December 2, 2009 she was given the vaccination at school. One month and five days later, everything changed. Records NBC 6 News obtained from the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals show Hannah was diagnosed with a history of Transverse Myelitis. This year's flu vaccine will include three strains of the influenza virus. Type 1, type b, and the H1N1 vaccine.

Jenna Zibton, KTAL 6

Doctors State WHO Responsible For Child Vaccine Deaths Cover-Up

The report by a group, including paediatricians, professors, health activists and a former Indian health secretary, cautions against the introduction of the five-in-one vaccine that combines antigens against five diseases - diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT), hepatitis B and Haemophilus Influenzae type B (HIB) - in a single shot. 'Our article describes how the World Health Organisation (WHO), in an elaborate cover-up, changed its own criteria for classifying adverse effects to say the vaccine was not responsible for the deaths in Sri Lanka,' Jacob Puliyel, head of paediatrics at St Stephen's Hospital in Delhi and key author, told IANS. Bhutan has so far resisted pressure from WHO to restart immunisation but Sri Lanka reintroduced the vaccine this year after a WHO expert panel, which investigated the events, declared that the vaccine was 'unlikely' to have caused the deaths. The panel, however, could not conclusively attribute the deaths to any other cause. Puliyel and co-authors who obtained the full report of the investigation say the WHO panel in Sri Lanka did not follow the standard protocol of the UN agency for classification of adverse events following immunisation but instead used its own method. The authors point out that the Sri Lankan deaths would have been classified as 'very likely' or 'probably' related to the vaccine, had the standard WHO classification been employed. Changing its own criteria for classifying adverse effects following vaccination is 'an elaborate cover up' by WHO to remove any connection between pentavalent vaccine and the deaths in Sri Lanka, alleges Puliyel.

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Related Links:
* Sudden Deaths AfterUnsafe Pentavalent Vaccine
S K Mittal MD, British Medical Journal
* Sri Lanken Deaths Following Pentavalent Vaccine - Unacceptable Collateral Damage
Dr Jacob Pulliyel, British Medical Journal