Health & Medical Newswire

A Brooklyn girl with epilepsy ended up in the hospital after school nurses mistakenly gave her and other students the swine flu vaccine without parental consent. Officials at Public School 335 in Crown Heights called an ambulance to take 6-year-old, Nikiyah Torres-Pierre to SUNY Downstate Medical Center when she fell ill following the flu shot.

Murray/News Nikiyah Torres, with her mom Naomi Troy, falls ill after a flu shot.

“I was outraged,” Naomi Troy, 26, told the Daily News after her daughter, had a possible allergic reaction to the shot.

“My stomach was hurting, and I was itching,” Nikiyah said after she was released from the hospital.

The snafu and a similar mixup at a Staten Island school came in the first days of the city’s in-school H1N1 vaccination program. Read full story.