Tag: medical error

Woman contracts world’s deadliest virus after unknowingly being given the wrong vaccine

A woman who was given the wrong vaccine developed a severe case of one of the world’s deadliest diseases. 

The healthy 30-year-old went to a clinic to receive a measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. However, the medical professional who gave her the shot made a dire mistake. 

Instead, the woman was injected with a vaccine for tuberculosis, the deadliest infection in the world, with an estimated 1.2 million deaths each year, resulting in a severe tuberculosis (TB) infection that required six months of recovery.

The TB vaccine in typically given to babies soon after they are born, making any adverse events more common among that group. 

Severe complications of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for TB, particularly in healthy people, are rare, with about one to 10 percent of recipients recorded in the medical literature having experienced them. 

These complications range from relatively mild – blisters at the injection site and swelling – to life-threatening lesions in the lungs, liver, or spleen, inflamed bones, and widespread infection. 

The patient, from Ireland, developed an abscess with oozing pus at the site on her arm where she was injected. After weeks of doctors’ struggling to identify the cause, believing at first it was caused by inflamed connective tissue in the skin, they tested the pus.

Testing revealed the woman had TB-causing bacteria in her body, possibly caused by the strain more common in cattle, which is used in a weakened form to make the vaccine.

The BCG vaccine was incorrectly injected into the muscle, though it should have been administered under the skin. Because the BCG contains bacteria, not viruses like the MMR shot, injecting it into the muscle allowed the bacteria to spread unchecked, leading to infection in the deltoid muscle. 

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UK’s National Health Service – literally costing an arm and a leg – hundreds of them

From here:

UK Hospitals Have “Mistakenly” Amputated Over 100 Limbs in Just Three Years – The Alarming Cost of Socialized Medicine Exposed! – Liberty Resolve

“In a shocking display of incompetence, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) hospitals have become hotbeds for “accidental” amputations, showcasing the dire consequences of government-run healthcare systems. Over the past three years, an appalling number of 105 patient limbs have been “mistakenly” removed by British doctors due to what can only be described as medical negligence.”

Yikes!

The article also points out “The incompetence doesn’t stop at scheduled surgeries; U.K. emergency rooms are also guilty of “mistakenly” severing limbs.”

The article does not detail the reasons for these “mistakes” – communication, language, influence of drugs and alcohol, overwork, language translation errors, criminal acts, administration errors, incompetence etc, but it does list the worst “Health Trusts”.

  • York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals,
  • George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust,
  • East Kent Hospitals University Trust,
  • Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
  • North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust,
  • Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
  • Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

But wait, there’s more!

“Adding insult to injury, another 15 NHS Foundation Trusts have also been implicated in similar negligent acts leading to accidental amputations. However, these organizations have shrouded their exact numbers in secrecy under the guise of “confidentiality concerns.” It’s estimated that among these 15 trusts alone, at least 82 patients suffered unnecessary amputations:”

115 plus 82 = 197 amputations, and probably more.

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