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...vaccine kills between one and two people per million inoculated.) Health officials don't always get the decision right. In March 1976, the U.S. government ordered a mass vaccination program against a swine flu virus they feared would cause a pandemic. Within weeks, reports surfaced of people developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease that can be caused by the vaccine. More than 30 people eventually died of the condition. Facing protests, federal officials abruptly canceled the program in December. (Read "Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days...
...conclusively linking deaths to a vaccine can be difficult, Pennington says, pointing out that there is still debate among experts as to how many of the 1976 Guillain-Barré deaths were actually caused by the vaccine. For this reason, health officials fear that adverse reactions in vaccine recipients can make the already difficult job of convincing healthy people to receive inoculations even more challenging. For whatever reason, people tend to fear vaccines more than other medicines. This has been the case since the first vaccinations were given to prevent a spread of smallpox in England in the late 18th...
...Barr ’11 is a government concentrator in Dunster House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...BARR "THE JURY...
...Barr ’11 is a government concentrator in Dunster House. His alternate-Monday column, “The Jury’s In,” will explore legal and political issues for the benefit of juniors who take the LSAT and fellow haunters of the Institute of Politics...