Friday, July 13, 2012

Confirmed: H1N1 Vaccine Linked to Deadly Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Mike Barrett, Contributor
Activist Post

As a result of the 2009 H1N1 swine flu scare, millions of people around the world received the H1N1 vaccine, but what these millions of individuals may not have known was that this vaccine comes with numerous risks.

Some might say that protection from the scary swine flu is worth any risk, but is it worth paralysis? What many people may not know is that the H1N1 vaccine side effects are quite concerning (similar to any vaccine), with the vaccine being tied to increased risk for nerve-paralyzing disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

H1N1 Vaccine Side Effects – Paralysis

Scientists from Quebec, Canada, reported recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association:
The disease [Guillain-Barré Syndrome] is thought to be autoimmune and triggered by a stimulus of external origin. In 1976-1977, an unusually high rate of GBS was identified in the United States following the administration of inactivated ‘swine’ influenza A(H1N1) vaccines. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) concluded that the evidence favored acceptance of a causal relationship between the 1976 swine influenza vaccines and GBS in adults.

Researchers also spoke on a large immunization campaign in against the swine flu in Quebec during 2009, where 57% of Quebec’s 7.8 million residents received the H1N1 vaccine. After examining data from all neurology clinics and acute care hospitals that may have had individuals with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, data from summary discharge databases of provincial hospitals, and examining the immunization status of reported cases, researchers concluded that there was “a small but significant risk of GBS following influenza A(H1N1) vaccination”. Noting that Guillain-Barre Syndrome is extremely rare on its own, they attributed 2 GBS cases for every 1 million H1N1 vaccine doses.

In 2009, a staggering 50 percent of doctors refused the H1N1 flu vaccine due to the strong connection with adverse health concerns. Even though 50 percent of the doctors were not receiving the shot, many of them would still recommend the shot to their patients – again, despite the H1N1 vaccine side effects.

In 2010, government health chiefs confirmed a link between the H1N1-containing seasonal flu vaccination and the killer nerve disease known as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, although the link wasn’t actually new. But the information regarding H1N1 vaccine side effects and GBS didn’t stop health officials from pushing the H1N1 vaccine onto the population in 2010 and 2011. As we know, the connection between Guillain-Barre Snydrome and flu vaccines has been alive since the 1970′s.
The vaccines used to combat an expected swine influenza pandemic in 1976 were shown to be associated with GBS and were withdrawn from use, Prof. Elizabeth Miller, head of the HPA’s immunization department, wrote.
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5 comments:

Alicia said...

So what happens if you did get the vaccine and NOW are suffering GBS and/or MS type symptoms? Where do we go? Is there a lawsuit in effect?

Anonymous said...

The cases of Guillain–Barré syndrome attributable to flu shots is from zero to 1 in a million. This is an extremely rare immune reaction to a foreign antigen. Deaths from flu range from 100,000 a year to well over 20,000,000 a year. So which do you prefer?

LadyRavenhaire said...

This argument is wrong. It isn't a question between getting the flu shot & possibly getting Guillian-Barrel syndrome and not getting the vaccine & possibly dying of flu. There is no proof the flu vaccine works, except in spreading the flu virus. The flu vaccine contains dangerously high levels of thermerisol, the most potent type of mercury. One shot is enough to give the average man or woman mercury poisoning. This is why the flu vaccine can cause Guillian-Barrel, MS, & a host of other health issues. In addition, to mercury, who knows what big pharma uses in the vaccine.

Anonymous said...

Wrong on every point. is clear and unarguable that flu shots can prevent the flu. The amount of thermerisol in a vaccine is minute not even close to dangerously high levels. It is in fact not a potent type of mercury in fact it is virtually harmless it is so small an amount.

One last point in 1977 the last time that Guillain–Barré syndrome seemed to be tied to flu shots of the very few who got Guillain–Barré almost all of them lost the symptoms within 24 hours.

Personally I could care less if you get flu shots or not. It won't affect me either way. This is not true for other vaccines which depend more on the herd immunity effect where enough people get the shots to prevent an outbreak. This is critical for many reason not the least being that very young children not yet vaccinated against pertussis could catch it from an adult who choose not to vaccinate.

Anonymous said...

We are beginning to doubt whether the incidence of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) after vaccination really is rare. Since one of our sons contracted the disease over twenty years ago after a vaccine we have become aware of many others who also contracted it after vaccines.
Time and time again we have come into contact with GBS sufferers after vaccines whose cases are not reported to the authorities and therefore are not in the statistics.
We personally know two who suffer GBS after the swine flu vaccine in 2009, neither are fully recovered and neither have managed to get their hospitals to report their cases.

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