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Pregnancy without an intercourse might sound impossible. When it happens merely by the flu shot, it sounds ridiculously impossible. But in this bizarre incident that supposedly occurred in Texas recently, a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl had allegedly fallen pregnant with a flu vaccination.
As per the reports, the schoolgirl had a flu shot that had left her terribly sick. She felt severe cramps. Her family doctor who had been examining her figured out only weeks later that the girl had got pregnant by the flu vaccine.
When the symptoms seemed to recur for several weeks, her worried mother took her to the Whole Woman’s Health of Forth Worth medical clinic where her doctor had been examining her only to find out that she was pregnant. While it took the girl a good few weeks before she began to feel better, her nausea persisted. She would have episodes of vomiting almost every day until her doctor (Dr. Hersch) gave the shocking explanation that the girl was pregnant.
The girl apparently had had no sexual relations with a boy. She even urged the doctor to check her hymen which the doctor eventually did. The doctor was surprised that the hymen was fully intact. It would have been impossible for her to get pregnant by a male sperm because her hymen was certainly untouched. Despite that, she had all the symptoms of a pregnant woman.
Dr. Hersch, who has twenty-six years of practice, says that she has never come across something like this wherein a virgin as gets pregnant by a vaccine. But through her research, she found out that it was possible and that it was not as uncommon as people thought.
Despite being a devout Christian family, the young girl’s family supported her and decided to keep the baby regardless of the unusual situation. The girl’s mother is looking forward to the new addition to the family as a gift and blessing from God to her community.
This is not the first time such an instance has occurred. In 2013, a similar case occurred in Mexico, near the city of Juarez where girls aged between 11 and 17 had supposedly fallen pregnant by HPV shots. The Mexican health authorities put a moratorium on HPV vaccines for six months as they claimed it could be a contaminated batch causing the problem.
The medical clinic where the culture inoculation took place vehemently denies any manhandling and calls the allegations improbable and absurd.
The entire story has however met with suspicion and debate on a possible satire by the publication of virgin dearth these days. Others claim that it could have been a very clever fabrication of a pregnancy that has happened through an intercourse but the family is looking at the means of keeping it. It might come to show that there are still many communities in the West that are not welcome to the idea of getting pregnant without parents’ approval or out of wedlock. Are such instances claimed to have occurred by publications that want to create a sensation or have people found a new way to defend an unwanted pregnancy – it’s something that’s not clear yet. In the day and age when the Divine intervention in a pregnancy is dubious, what do modern minds think?
