{"id":387212,"date":"2018-11-30T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/after-getting-a-flu-shot\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:00:07","slug":"after-getting-a-flu-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/after-getting-a-flu-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"After Getting a Flu Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the eve of Thanksgiving, New York State Senator Jose Peralta, 47, died tragically and suddenly of what is being called \u2018septic shock\u2019.\u00a0This New York Post article<\/a>\u00a0interviewed Peralta\u2019s wife Evelyn who offered a few details:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll they said is that he was septic,\u201d Evelyn Peralta said Friday afternoon, after meeting officials with the city Medical Examiner\u2019s office.\u00a0\u201cAnd that led to organ failure,\u201d she said of her 47-year-old husband, the state Senate\u2019s first Dominican-American member.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need to do additional tests,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is no final conclusion yet. They don\u2019t know\u201d what caused the fatal blood infection, she said.\u00a0\u201cHis body was poisoning itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, tearfully, \u201cI just came back from viewing the body. The doctor said it\u2019s rare, [given] his age and that it happened so quick \u2026 he was healthy. He was a healthy guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The New York Post article mentions nothing about a flu shot that Peralta had taken two weeks earlier.
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Peralta Thought Illness Was Due To Flu Shot<\/strong><\/p>\n

This New York Times article<\/a>\u00a0had a conversation with his director of communications which revealed something interesting:<\/p>\n

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He had been ill for at least two weeks, but had been reluctant to visit a doctor, according to Chris Sosa, his director of communications. After much prodding he finally went for an exam recently, and he had a follow-up scheduled for December.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like pulling teeth to get him to talk about not feeling well,\u201d Mr. Sosa said. \u201cHe just thought he was having symptoms related to getting the flu shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That last point is important. Often when a person is sick, they have a pretty good idea what…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On the eve of Thanksgiving, New York State Senator Jose Peralta, 47, died tragically and suddenly of what is being called \u2018septic shock\u2019.\u00a0This New York Post article\u00a0interviewed Peralta\u2019s wife Evelyn who offered a few details: \u201cAll they said is that he was septic,\u201d Evelyn Peralta said Friday afternoon, after meeting officials with the city Medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}