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"<p>Stressing that concerns are most likely a false alarm, federal health officials have begun investigating the possibility that there could be significant complications from H1N1 vaccine.<br />\n<br />\nA somewhat elevated rate of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which can result in paralysis and death; Bell's palsy, which can lead to facial paralysis; and thrombocytopenia, which causes a low level of blood platelets, has been detected in the latest analysis of data.<br />\n<br />\nThe data is collected by five of the networks used by the government to monitor people inoculated against swine flu.<br />\n<br />\nIt is too early to know if the vaccine increased the risk of the conditions or if there is some other explanation, officials stressed.<br />\n<br />\nA unanimous vote was made by the Health and Human Services Department's National Vaccine Advisory Committee to follow up on the findings.<br />\n<br />\n&quot;We're at the first step of determining whether there is a problem,&quot; Guthrie S. Birkhead, the chair of the committee, said, the Washington Post reports. &quot;There's a lot more work to determine whether there is.&quot;&nbsp;<br />\n<br />\nFurther analysis, Marie McCormick, the leader of a subcommittee of experts of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, could prove that the problems stem from other factors, the Washington Post reports.<br />\n<br />\nIf the Guillain-Barre Syndrome link is confirmed, the committee calculates, at most, the vaccine could be responsible for one extra case per one million vaccinations.<br />\n<br />\n&quot;From everything we know right now, the influenza vaccine, including the H1N1 vaccine, is very safe, and it's much riskier to get influenza than the influenza vaccine,&quot; Anne Schuchat of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the Washington Post.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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