The media source running this story reinforces a poor ability to understand statistics, as well as the difference between correlation/causation.
Getting past the fact that nobody will ever be able to conclusively prove her dystonia was linked to the flu shot (and not just unfortunate timing), lets assume the flu shot really does cause that type of affliction in one person in one million. This would mean that if the entire US population received a flu shot, roughly three hundred people would develop this type of symptoms. Compare this with the ONE THOUSAND citizens of the US who have
ALREADY DIED from the 2009 H1N1 strain. News stories about statistically insignificant cases of side effects will convince people at risk not to get the shot, for reasons which are not worth considering with a straight face.