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Perfectly healthy’ Florida girl, 10, is paralyzed with rare brain infection and can no longer speak – four days after receiving flu shot

‘Perfectly healthy’ Florida girl, 10, is paralyzed with rare brain infection and can no longer speak – four days after receiving flu shot Marysue Grivna, 10, developed acute disseminated encephalomyelitis days after getting her seasonal flu shot that has left her paralyzed The condition, an infection of the brain, affects about 8 in 1,000,000 people In about five percent of ADEM cases, the patient had been immunized shortly before Research shows ADEM is more common among those who get infections from viruses like the flu than those who get the vaccine A 10-year-old girl in Florida has been paralyzed for… View Article