S. Korean teenager in coma after anti-flu vaccine shot

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean teenager has fallen into a coma after
receiving an anti-flu vaccine, health authorities said Saturday.

According to the officials in the city of Pocheon, 45 km north of Seoul, the
13-year-old student has now been unconscious for nine days, after being
hospitalized with a cerebral hemorrhage.
He initially fell unconscious at school having previously suffered hallucinations
a day after he was inoculated with the new H1N1 vaccine as part of a nationwide
effort to take preventive measures against the flu.
Authorities say it remains unclear whether the flu vaccine was a cause of the
cerebral hemorrhage.
Last month, a South Korean student whose identity was not revealed died of
cerebral homorrhaging three days after receiving the new H1N1 vaccine.
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