Utah mom faults flu shot for killing son, 19

Doctors won’t confirm it, but a Utah mother is certain her son, 19, died from complications from a flu shot.

The coincidence of his health degradation and receipt of flu shot is just too great to ignore or dismiss, she said, Fox13News in Salt Lake City reported. Within 24 hours after receiving his first flu shot in late October, Chandler Webb became violently ill, his mother, Lori Webb, said to the media outlet.

“He said he never shook so hard his whole life,” she said in the report. “He had the worst headache, throw up.”

Ms. Webb said on Monday, during a live appearance on Fox News, that he went to one emergency room, wasn’t treated and then went to another emergency room a few days later. He wasn’t treated for anything at the first emergency room because doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him, Ms. Webb said. So they sent him home. But his condition worsened, and he ultimately ended up in the emergency room of another hospital a few days later, where he was incubated and fell into a coma. He died shortly after, she said.

And though doctors still won’t confirm if he died from the flu shot, she said on Fox News on Monday that her instincts — as well as the timing of the shot and his subsequent fall from good health — tell her it’s true.

Doctors ultimately said fluids in his head swelled so much that his brain was actually crushed, she said, Fox News reported, but they remain puzzled by his death and don’t know what caused his symptoms.

“It was a nightmare,” she said on Fox News. “No mother should have to go through that.”