Oct 30, 2009 11:48 pm US/Eastern
OUTRAGE: 2 NYC Kids Get Flu Shots Without Consent
Now One Mother Is A Nervous Wreck Because She's Not Sure If Vaccine Will Exacerbate Her Daughter's Epilepsy
Reporting
Jay Dow
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
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A swine flu vaccine mix-up has sparked outrage and concern.
Two children were given the vaccine without their parent's consent. One mother said her daughter ended up in the emergency room after getting sick.
It's a major mistake that could've cost one little girl her life.
It will be a long weekend for 6-year-old Nikiyah Torres as a result of an H1N1 vaccination she received Thursday morning at PS 335 in Brooklyn.
"He just gave me the needle, without asking me what is my name," Nikiyah told CBS 2 HD.
Without her mother's consent.
"I'm outraged. What parent wouldn't be?" mother Naomi Troy said.
New York City health officials said another student -- at PS 65 on Staten Island -- was also given the vaccine without parental permission. Nikiyah's mother said she's furious over the mistake and not just because of her general objection to the H1N1 vaccine, but also out of concern over how it will interact with medication Nikiyah takes for epilepsy.
"I don't understand how you make a mistake like that," Troy said.
Troy said when she arrived at PS 335 on Thursday morning the school nurse actually asked her to sign a consent form for the vaccine -- even though he had already given it to her daughter.
"He knew he was in big trouble and he wanted to cover himself," Troy said.
After complaining about a stomachache and nausea, Nikiyah was transported to the emergency room and later released. The school's incident report states: "Student sent down to medical room in error by teacher. I, Warren Carter, a public health nurse at PS 335 in Brooklyn, N.Y. administered an H1N1 influenza vaccine in deltoid in error."
City health officials said they do not "... expect any future adverse medical effects for these children, but we are working to determine how this misstep occurred, and we will develop additional safeguards to prevent similar instances in the future."
Troy said she's going to hold the city to its word and plans to forward the incriminating incident form to her lawyer.
The school's incident report includes a brief follow up plan: "Have more than one personnel at school identify student via picture ID."
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