Desiree Jennings
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{{silver}}[[Image:DesireeJennings.jpg|thumb|One could question if the media attention would have been as great if she wasn't...um, what do you call it, "fit."]] | {{silver}}[[Image:DesireeJennings.jpg|thumb|One could question if the media attention would have been as great if she wasn't...um, what do you call it, "fit."]] | ||
'''Desiree Jennings''' is a 25-year-old aspiring cheerleader from Ashburn, [[Virginia]] who went [[viral]] on the Internet in October 2009,<ref name="WTTG1">[http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/health/101309_woman_disabled_by_flu_shot_reaction_dystonia Woman disabled by flu shot reaction] Fox 5</ref> after announcing that she'd been horribly [[disability|crippled]] by the [[flu shot]]. After she got herself on [[TV]], [[Neuroscience|neurologists]] pointed out that her symptoms were completely unlike those of nerve damage—but perfectly typical of [[psychosomatic|psychogenic]] illness. Shortly after, she was miraculously "cured" with [[chelation therapy]]. | '''Desiree Jennings''' is a 25-year-old aspiring cheerleader from Ashburn, [[Virginia]] who went [[viral]] on the Internet in October 2009,<ref name="WTTG1">[http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/health/101309_woman_disabled_by_flu_shot_reaction_dystonia Woman disabled by flu shot reaction] Fox 5</ref> after announcing that she'd been horribly [[disability|crippled]] by the [[flu shot]]. After she got herself on [[TV]], [[Neuroscience|neurologists]] pointed out that her symptoms were completely unlike those of nerve damage—but perfectly typical of [[psychosomatic|psychogenic]] illness. Shortly after, she was miraculously "cured" with [[chelation therapy]]. | ||
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== Media coverage == | == Media coverage == | ||
Revision as of 07:02, 3 October 2012
Desiree Jennings is a 25-year-old aspiring cheerleader from Ashburn, Virginia who went viral on the Internet in October 2009,[1] after announcing that she'd been horribly crippled by the flu shot. After she got herself on TV, neurologists pointed out that her symptoms were completely unlike those of nerve damage—but perfectly typical of psychogenic illness. Shortly after, she was miraculously "cured" with chelation therapy.
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Media coverage
A local paper called the Loudoun-Times Mirror first broke the story on 12 October.[2] That's probably the single best mainstream report about the bare facts of her case, before the exaggerations began to set in. On the 13th, local Fox affiliate WTTG (Channel 5) aired an appalling, sensationalistic travesty of a report,[1] promptly outdone on the 16th by national tabloid TV magazine Inside Edition.[3] YouTube got a hold of it,[4] shit hit the fan, and a million people learned that ZOMG FLU SHOT POISION!!1!!!
She's the beautiful cheerleader whose heartbreaking story is shocking the nation
See also
External links
- Not suspicious at all...not at all...
- Flu Fears, Vaccine Fears, and Cheerleader Desiree Jennings’s Story (usnews.com)
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Woman disabled by flu shot reaction Fox 5
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedLoudoun - ↑ Woman Says Flu Shot Triggered Rare Neurological Disorder Inside Edition
- ↑ Desiree Jennings's Story Causes Flu Shot Controversy Inside Edition
