According to reports in The Sun news paper, Pregnant Fallon Devaney, 25, is in a coma after being rushed to hospital suffering with swine flu, she is also now fighting pneumonia, but the staffs believe the baby, due in April, may be sapping her strength. The parents of Fallon Devaney fear they will have to choose who can be saved - the mother or her unborn baby.
Fallon was taken from home in Kirk Hallam, Derbys , to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham on Tuesday. She had not received the seasonal flu jab, which also guards against swine flu (H1N1 Virus).
Fallons mum Linda said: "All pregnant women should be given the vaccine. If Fallon had it she would not now be lying in a hospital bed almost dead.
Dr Stephen Fowlie, Medical Director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "We encourage all people in at-risk groups to have the seasonal flu vaccine, including pregnant women. They should contact their GP for more advice."
And the Government's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Dame Sally Davies, said: "It is particularly important for pregnant women, no matter what stage they have reached, to get their free flu vaccine as soon as possible."
Meanwhile it emerged that parts of the North were suffering a shortage of swine flu anti-viral drug Tamiflu because of distribution problems.
NHS chiefs said the problem was temporary.
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