by KYW's David Madden
Several hundred pregnant women came to the Burlington County, NJ health department in Westhampton on Friday to get a free swine flu inoculation.
They were among the first in South Jersey to get the vaccine.
You didn’t have to live in the county to get the shot. Chelsea Du Brul of Allentown (Monmouth County), NJ (above left) is due to have a boy in about three months:
"Since it’s the height of flu season and pregnant women are being hospitalized, I figured it was pretty important."
And worth the risk, in spite of some of the stories out there.
Robert Gogats is Burlington County’s public health coordinator:
"In any given population at any certain point in time, you”re going to have somebody who’s going to have a coma or is going to have a problem. It doesn’t mean it necessarily comes from the shots."
That’s why Nora Marsh of Edgewater Park got in line:
"The media has really scared the crap out of me just because of the fact that women are dying and I have children and I don’t want them to grow up without a mother."
Bottom line: pregnant women face greater dangers from the flu than from the vaccine.
(Photo by KYW's David Madden)
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