BY RAYMUND WONG (The Malaysian Insider City News)
Published: 19 July 2015 11:29 AMA couple caring for their autist
ic son for 47 years have alleged that he was brain damaged after a teaching hospital in Petaling Jaya gave him a smallpox vaccination.
Low Hon Hong, 75, and his wife Chua Ngan Cheng, 70, believed that it was the smallpox vaccination the day after their son Low Chee Min’s birth in 1968 that caused him to have brain damage.
“He was born at about midnight, and the next day they gave him two injections: for smallpox and a BCG (for tuberculosis). A week later he falls sick, his body was yellow and he was admitted again,” Chua said, adding that her three elder children did not receive the same smallpox vaccination.
“I did not know any better then. I was young, but doctors now say that it may have been that injection that changed my son.
“He was too young for the vaccination, they should have only given it to him when he was older,” she said.
Chua said that when her son was admitted, doctors operated on him on the top of his thighs to perform a blood transfusion.