Flu Hoax Girl
Do you think that the girl walking backwards ’cause of a flu shot is real news? Or do you think it’s a hoax?
The person in that video reported receiving the flu vaccine in August this year, developed a flu-like syndrome ten days later, then seven weeks later developed a severe movement disorder and seizures. The time-correlation itself is suggestive but does not in itself prove that one caused the other to occur.
The diagnosis of dystonia was reportedly made by her physical therapist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, while other news sources state that she was also diagnosed at Inova Fairfax hospital in northern Virginia, but there is no mention of what type of physician did the work-up, performed an exam or made a diagnosis.
What remains in question is whether this is physiologic or psychogenic in nature. (Recently, an emergency medicine physician in Maryland stated to the press that it appears to be psychogenic and intends to use it as a teaching case.)
If physiologic, this would be considered a secondary dystonia, which usually follows some kind of injury, stroke, disease state or drug administration. Toxic injury vs autoimmune reaction would be focused upon.
Popular speculation about how a vaccine could cause a specific / unique deficit(s) such as this centers more around autoimmunity. The idea is that introduction of a foreign material would trigger an immune response which would amplify immune cells and production of antibodies against one’s own cells, such as for instance, myelin (the insulating material on neurons), leading to severe disturbances in the transmission of electrical impulses in the brain.
Depending upon the area(s) of the brain that is/are most severely affected, different functions would become impaired. Changes/injury to the basal ganglia, for instance, would have an effect on several functions, such as the initiation and regulation of movement. Also, injury to the primary somatosensory cortex is believed to be related to walking difficulty. A particular subtype or combination of these kinds of changes in the brain, from autoimmune injury to myelin/ vessels/ other cells could lead to a condition in which initiation or regulation of walking forward is severely impaired while other functions such as walking backward and running forward are preserved.
So far, there is no accepted, definitive mechanism to clearly explain how vaccines and/or vaccine adjuvants/ carriers could induce an autoimmune response or bring about toxic damage that could cause the type and level of impairment seen in this person’s case.
There was reportedly some suspicion of tainted vaccine, but this has been dismissed by investigators.
There has been some mention of Guillan Barre Syndrome which was cited as a consequence of vaccination, but that hasn’t been credited since the mid 1970’s. Guillan Barre is an autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system and usually follows an infectious illness, and shows an ascending paralysis (leg muscle weakness, loss of dtr’s, progressing to upper body weakness/ paralysis, respiratory failure) and none of the subtypes of Guillan Barre resemble this woman’s condition.
The physiologic and psychogenic considerations are both realistically possible, and in either case she needs medical attention– neurologic or psychiatric. Hopefully she has been appropriately evaluated by now. All that matters is that she gets well.
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otherwise, she is old school and thinks this is a way to flirt, which women mythogically do, but we dont really. First case ive heard of.
