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...Clinical trials are on the magnitude of thousands and can screen out common and mild reactions for the vaccine - fever and sore arms mostly. But if a vaccine causes a severe reaction in one in a million people, there's no way to test for that." (See pictures of swine flu hitting Mexico...
...because the program could have resulted in dozens of deaths. (Statistical analysis has shown that the smallpox 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...
...hooked up with last weekend has swine...
Dartmouth seems to be right on pace with Harvard. They just started school because of their quarter system, but they diagnosed 47 new cases of influenza-like illness last week, only three fewer than Harvard. And if swine flu has advanced to the backwoods of Hanover, New Hampshire, all we at FlyBy can do is cross our fingers and use Harvard’s hand sanitizers...
...safety of vaccines is not unique, at least not in the liberal, wealthy part of L.A. where we live. Several friends have not vaccinated their children, and we know pediatricians who recommend avoiding some or all shots. And I know almost no one who is willing to get the swine-flu shot, and not because everyone here is Jewish. It's because while the far right gets a lot of crap about not believing in science, the left isn't crazy about it either. Only instead of rejecting facts that conflict with the Bible, it ignores anything that conflicts with...