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12-Year-Old Girl Dies Of Flu After Receiving Vaccine

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 13:27

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A 12-year-old girl who died from the Swine Flu has been confirmed as to have received the flu shot five months before her death. Maxine Starmarie Zepeda Lopez, who died Feb. 9 at University Medical Center, began reporting pain in her legs and stomach and had difficulty moving her legs. Maxine would be released from the hospital after being given an IV to help treat dehydration. Her mother, Christina Lopez, would eventually call for an ambulance after symptoms later worsened. She was pronounced dead at the same hospital.

“I can’t even explain it to anybody, the pain that I feel,” Christina Lopez said about a month after her daughter’s death.

According to the Review Journal, Maxine was vaccinated:

Maxine Lopez received a flu shot in September, her medical records show. Her mother could not immediately be reached for comment Monday.

Later in the article, Southern Nevada Health District Medical Epidemiologist Tony Fredrick seems to make excuses for the girls death, blaming “underlying conditions.”

Fredrick added that this year’s flu vaccine seems to acceptably target the strains of flu circulating in the area, and he described this year as typical in terms of the number of influenza cases reported.

“Frequently people that die of flu have some underlying factor,” said Touro University associate professor of microbiology and immunology Karen Duus said.

The vaccine pitch tends to be that it will protect those who are most susceptible to injury and death: That’s the entire idea behind “herd immunity.” But in this case, a medical official, unsurprisingly, contradicts himself when the results don’t match the vaccine company line. It would be too difficult just to say the vaccine failed to work as marketed.

According to KTNV, the family doesn’t believe the cause of death was influenza.

The family is questioning the ruling.

Maxine died in a hospital bed, just four days after being sent home from school with a fever. Maxine’s mom said before she died, her daughter felt cold and clammy but Maxine said she was hot.

They say the facts don’t add up and they don’t understand how she died from the flu when no one else in their family was sick.

“Within the hour, she was communicating with us and she wanted to go home and next thing you know, she’s gone,” said Maxine’s father Antonio Lopez.