Receive Free Neurological Disorder with Your Swine Flu
Vaccination Photo from Flikr In another case where the cure is
worse than the disease, concerns have arisen over a link between
the new Swine Flu vaccine and a neurological disorder called
Guillain-Barré. Actually, the link is a rehashing of the first
time the Flu hit in 1976. Like today, there was a huge public
panic, with many concerned that the new Flu could be like the
1918-19 pandemic that killed 20 million people worldwide. When a
massive vaccination campaign ensued, the vaccine’s safety was
insufficiently weighted against its risks. As such, the Flu
claimed one death and complications attributed to the vaccine
killed 25. This dark spot in the annals of US public health has
been immortalized as the Swine Flu ‘Debacle.’It must be said
that the 1976 outbreak and this year’s are quite different in
scope, with this iteration already claiming 477 deaths in the US
and over 1,462 worldwide, according to the CDC and WHO
respectively. Also, the yet-to-be-rel