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...Barr ’11 is a government concentrator in Dunster House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...swine-flu-vaccine makers - agreed to by the U.S. government in June - that they must be granted immunity from lawsuits. The 1976 campaign saw expensive lawsuits against the government from the families of the 25 people who died and the 500 or so who were partly paralyzed by Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Only one person died of the 1976 swine flu. It is wrong to suggest that the current vaccines being rushed to market are safe for general consumption. The public has a right to know that neurologists around the country have been alerted to watch for a rise...
...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...