Lachlan Neylan: 22 month old severely brain damaged after a flu shot – Learn The Risk
Lachlan began having seizures within hours of the shots. His parents were told he was unlikely to live, but he managed to pull through. But he will likely never walk or talk again.
He just collapsed and started to have seizures. Doctors said they thought our son wouldn’t make it through the weekend. It was terrifying,” said Lachlan’s father.
Before the injection, Lachlan had been a “walking, talking toddler.” After the flu shot, he stopped being able to sit, walk 
or talk and “he was back to being a three-month-old,” according to his parents.
Fluvax (the shot given to Lachlan) had been banned for children under five in 2010 after it had been found to trigger febrile convulsions in one in every 100 children. Despite the ban the Department of Health confirmed the banned shot had been administered to 43 children under the age of five just that year. And the shot is regularly given to children older than five and adults.
We don’t want anyone else to go through what we have been through,” said Mr Neylan after speaking out to media.
The family’s home has now had to be turned into a rehabilitation centre for Lachlan, who is now faces a lifetime of disability. The family are yet to receive compensation for this injury that has completely changed their lives.
Studies show that the flu shot rarely protects people from getting the flu and that increased vaccination does NOT reduce mortality in any age group. “We could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 with declining mortality rates in any age group. Because fewer than 10% of all winter deaths were attributable to influenza in any season, we conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit.” (Study published in Archives of Internal Medicine)
So is that flu shot really worth the REAL risk? Just to escape a few days of rest… Think twice before rolling up your sleeve. Actually think three times, four times, five times….
