Transverse myelitis (TM) & vaccination
Nervous system
[2016 July] Joshua Coleman Speaks Out on Son's Vaccine-Induced Paralysis (Transverse Myelitis) and SB277 "We asked why this had happened, and the doctor said it was most likely a reaction to either a vaccination or an airborne virus, the latter being rejected since he'd had no signs of illness. The doctor then slammed the door shut on further discussion of how our healthy son went from walking to being paralyzed. There was no investigation to specifically determine what had caused our child to go from walking and running into a wheelchair for the rest of his life. At a later date, we took our son to Johns Hopkins for further testing. There, doctors investigated every possible reason why our son might have become paralyzed from Transverse Myelitis, every possible reason except for vaccines. This made no sense then, and it makes no sense now, as every doctor that Otto saw at four different hospitals mentioned that the vaccines he received in close proximity to his paralysis were the most likely culprit."
[2011 May] Polio and lemmings by Hilary Butler All the kids who used to be on clumsy iron lungs, are now on high tech iron lungs and renamed under the autoimmune moniker called Transverse Myelitis and no doubt other creative titles to spread the decoys around. And here is your proof. Hidden away in the forward of a book, by a specialist doctor. Of course, paralysed cases of transverse myelitis on modern iron lungs isn't something either the media, or WHO will shout from the rooftops. So today, instead of kids with polio in callipers and iron lungs, we have lots of kids with autoimmunity, and .... widespread chronic diseases.
As a faculty neurologist and neuroscientist at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland, I have spent the last decade evaluating and treating patients with autoimmune disorders of the nervous system. I founded and continue to direct the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis (TM) Center, the only center in the world dedicated to developing new therapies foe this paralyzing autoimmune disorder. Increasingly, I see that more and more patients are being felled by this devastating disorder. Infants as young as five months old can get TM and some are left permanently paralyzed and dependent upon a ventilator to breathe. But this is supposed to be a rare disorder, reportedly affecting only one in a million people. Prior to the 1950s, there were a grand total of four cases reported in the medical literature. Currently, my colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and I hear about or treat hundreds of new cases every year. In the multiple sclerosis clinic, where I also see patients, the number of cases likewise continues to climb.----Douglas Kerr, MD, PhD
[2011 Jan] Paramedic paralysed after having swine flu jab provided by ambulance service Medics diagnosed transverse myelitis, a rare complication often associated with vaccines.....A year later, Mrs Hornsey, of Little Hampton, in West Sussex, is able to walk only with a stick and relies on a wheelchair....She had the jab in November 2009. Five months later, bosses at South East Coast Ambulance Service – where she worked for two years – sacked her instead of allowing her to take on an office role. ...‘By then my confidence was shattered and I felt too upset to return,’ added Mrs Hornsey. ‘Life has been very hard. Doctors don’t know if I will ever get completely better.’
Akkad W, Salem B, Freeman JW, Huntington MK. Longitudinally Extensive Transverse Myelitis Following Vaccination With Nasal
Attenuated Novel Influenza A(H1N1) Vaccine. Arch Neurol. 2010 Aug;67(8):1018-20.
Center for Family Medicine, 1115 E 20th St, Sioux Falls, SD 57105.
mark.huntington@usd.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Transverse myelitis has been reported in association with
vaccination, including influenza vaccination. OBJECTIVE: To describe a case of
longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis associated with vaccination with a
nasal attenuated novel influenza A(H1N1) vaccine. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING:
Sanford University of South Dakota Hospital. Patient A 27-year-old woman with
longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis. RESULTS: Four days following novel
influenza A(H1N1) vaccination, the patient developed longitudinally extensive
transverse myelitis. Extensive diagnostic evaluation effectively ruled out
causes other than vaccination-associated transverse myelitis. Following
treatment with corticosteroids and plasmapheresis, the patient made a
significant recovery. CONCLUSIONS: Transverse myelitis may be associated with
vaccination against novel influenza A(H1N1). Additionally, we believe this to be
the first report of longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis associated with
any vaccine.
PMID: 20697056
[Media July 2006] Legal aid victory for paralysed MMR boy
News: Roadblocks frustrate Little Al (hep B reaction)
Dr. Derek Smith. A neurologist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Smith had been retained to testify for people with transverse myelitis, a potentially paralyzing neurological disorder. Smith said he was "highly confident" that the tetanus vaccine could trigger the ailment in certain vulnerable individuals. Officials with the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program strongly disagreed. Then Smith quit. According to court papers and interviews, Smith decided to bail out after complaints were lodged with his superiors by three other experts with a long history of testifying for the government in vaccine court.....Early in 2002, Smith was informed (that he) "was ruining his reputation by his testimony in the vaccine program," ...Wary of antagonizing people who could affect his career, Smith decided to drop out after testifying in one last case, .....Smith was told in so many words that he was jeopardizing his access to research funding. [Media, 29 Nov 2004] Witnesses for Petitioners Are Often Tough to Find
[2006] Paralysed children's legal
fight over MMR Shane Lambert and Fadi Khawaja both developed
transverse myelitis - an incurable disease of the spine - after being
given the injection. Shane, now 11, received the MMR jab at
13 months old, and is now doubly incontinent and wheelchair bound.
Fadi, now 22, was given the vaccine when he was 10. He can now only walk
small distances using crutches and suffers a range of debilitating
health problems. "Fadi was perfectly healthy and running around until he
had the vaccine," his mother said.....Mario Arturo Rodriguez, from
Washington, developed transverse myelitis after he had the jab at one
year old. Now seven, he was given the money from the American
government's National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to pay for a
lifetime of round-the-clock-care.
James Merow, the senior judge in Mario's case, echoed these views
when he concluded: "There is a wealth of persuasive support....for the
proposition that the MMR vaccine can cause transverse myelitis.." But
the Department of Health said there is "no established link" between the
MMR vaccine and transverse myelitis
Abdennebi A, Dumas JL, Salama J, Benromdhane H, Belin C, Goldlust D. [Postvaccination myelitis. Aspect and course followed by MRI]J Radiol. 1996 May;77(5):363-6. French.PMID: 8762935 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Fescharek R, et al (1995) Transverse myelitis unlikely to be due to measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. BMJ. 1995 Dec 16;311(7020):1642. No abstract available. PMID: 8555831; UI: 96111884.
Joyce KA, et al. Transverse myelitis after measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. BMJ. 1995 Aug 12;311(7002):422. No abstract available.PMID: 7640590; UI: 95367940.
Karaali-Savrun F, Altintas A, Saip S, Siva A. Hepatitis B vaccine related-myelitis?Eur J Neurol. 2001 Nov;8(6):711-5.PMID: 11784358 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Larner
AJ, Farmer SF. Myelopathy following influenza vaccination in
inflammatory CNS disorder treated with chronic immunosuppression. Eur
J Neurol. 2000 Nov;7(6):731-3. PMID: 11136365 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
We report a patient who developed a transverse myelitis with Brown-Sequard syndrome
following a prophylactic influenza vaccination, despite being chronically immunosuppressed
for a steroid-responsive optic neuropathy. Although influenza vaccination is recommended
in patients receiving chronic immunosuppression, its use may on occasion be associated
with neurological complications previously reported in immunocompetent individuals.
Renard
JL, Guillamo JS, Ramirez JM, Taillia H, Felten D, Buisson Y. Presse Med 1999 Jul
3-10;28(24):1290-2 [No title available].[Article in French] Clinique de neurologie, HIA
Val-de-Grace, Paris. [Medline record in process]
BACKGROUND: The cause and effect relationship between anti-HBV
immunization using recombinant vaccine and the development of a neurological event,
including flare-ups of multiple sclerosis, is a widely debated issue.
CASE REPORT: A previously asymptomatic 16-year-old girl was a hyper-responder to anti-HBV
vaccine. Subsequent to a booster shot of anti-HBV recombinant vaccine, she developed
regressive acute cervical transverse myelitis with intrathecal oligochonal IgG secretion
and a hypersignal on the MRI T2 sequences of the cord.
DISCUSSION: The distinction between a first episode of multiple sclerosis or post-vaccinal
acute myelitis in this case will depend upon subsequent course, but this observation
points out the very high level of persistent post-vaccinal immunization which can be
acquired by a hyper-responder. PMID: 10442059, UI: 99370647
Tezzon
F, Tomelleri P, Ferrari G, Sergi A. Acute radiculomyelitis after
antitetanus vaccination.Ital J Neurol Sci. 1994 May;15(4):191-3.
Review.PMID: 7960672 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
We report the assessment by MRI of a case of radiculomyelitis after
vaccination against tetanus-poliomyelitis. In the acute stage the appearance was an
isolated myelitis of the conus medullaris with contrast enhancement. The upper thoracic
cord presented central areas of high signal intensity on T2 weighted images. Rapid
clinical recovery was correlated with resolution of abnormal enhancement. Follow-up MR at
5 months showed persistence of slight T2 prolongation in the conus medullaris and
syringohydromyela of the thoracic cord. A single lesion of the spinal cord is a rare
presentation of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, the course of such lesions, to date
not previously displayed by MR, is unknown. Proper diagnosis should help prevent
administration of further vaccine doses.