Puyallup man paralyzed after routine vaccination
Jul 29, 2009 Bryan Johnson komonews.com
PUYALLUP, Wash. — A nationwide swine flu shot effort might come up short with only 140 million doses ready by October.
The feds say health workers and pregnant women will be top the vaccination list, but one local couple has a warning.
Jerry Emmons got a tetanus and a pneumonia shot in June. Now he’s in a wheelchair. His legs are paralyzed, and his arms weak.
The shots had caused the Guillain-Barre syndrome.
“I could be over this is in six to eight months. I could be up and walking again,” said Emmons. “Yeah, I hope.”
“I have to be here 24-7,” said wife Jo Ann Emmons. “It’s like taking care of a baby again, and it is not fair to Jerry.”
The Centers for Disease Control says inoculations can trigger the progressive and paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome. The Emmons worry about plans for a massive swine flu vaccination program.
“I’m having no more shots for flu, no more shots for nothing,” said Jerry Emmons.
In 1976, one person died of swine flu. A national vaccination program was stopped because 25 died of reactions, including the Guillain-Barre syndrome.
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