Students Ill After Receiving Swine Flu Vaccine

100809swineflu.jpg Three Queens students were brought to the hospital yesterday after complaining of sickness right after they received the H1N1 vaccine. Within twenty minutes of getting vaccinated, one student of PS 124 in South Ozone Park "complained of a headache" says NY1, and overall 16 students said they felt ill. However, of the three girls brought to the hospital, one wasn't even given the vaccine in the first place! Maybe the dog ate her homework?

Elsewhere in the Swine Flu universe, many vaccination clinics for middle and high school students will be open to the general public this weekend. Since "remarkably few pupils showed up for the first weekend of vaccinations," according to the Daily News, the clinics decided to expand since they had extra doses that hadn't been stolen by those fat cats on Wall Street. The nurses will vaccinate anyone who shows up and claims to be in a priority group, including pregnant women, kids and adults up to age 25, and adults with chronic health problems. However, no vaccinations will be given to children under 4, as the nurses are not equipped to handle them. A list of clinics and their hours of operation can be found at nyc.gov/flu or by calling 311.

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Just get an immune system. People who get sick are silly.

This is so stupid. Right after you get the vaccine, there are some immediate side effects, but getting the flu 15 minutes after the shot is impossible unless of course you had the flu already, which means you shouldn't have got the vaccine in the first place.

Obvious mass hysteria. The girl who didn't get the shot, but still felt sick is the smoking hypodermic.

How many times must we go though with this? Vaccines have side effects, don't take the vaccine.

Build your immune system with Vitamin D and C and drink plenty of OJ and water.

Is that so hard?

Vaccines due have side effects but they are beneficial too! How effective is drinking OJ against infectious disease??

This is a scam! I bet thier families have lawyers on the phone right now to sue the city.

Anyone have luck navigating the city's site? I want to find a weekend clinic, but you have to just keep entering in zip codes until one shows up at a date you can go.

No wonder no one attended the ones last weekend.

DUH!!! In case you didn't know it (and it appears that these ill-informed alarmists don't know because they didn't see it on TV), a vaccination is a watered down sample of the actual pathogen and will cause minor side effects such as a headache.

Give me a break. IMO they should've given these whiners a double dose of the vaccinations in order to adhere to Mother Nature's time-honored adage of "survival of the fittest."

We'd all be better off without them.

Oh please, how sick are you with your Social Darwinistic POV, so 20th century.

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