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The Long Shadow of the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine 'Fiasco'
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Smart News
| Smithsonian Magazine
This links gives you a real good idea why rushing a vaccine out for political reasons is not a good idea. Of the 45,000 people who took the vaccine 450 got sick with Guillian-Barre syndrome and 45 people died. Many of the others suffered the rest of their lives with the results of the syndrome. The vaccine was of course pulled. Do we really want to go through this again with more people dying for strictly political reasons. Every scientist I have read says to never try out an unproven vaccine on the general public until it is determine SAFE and effective. You might notice that everytime they talk about what a good vaccine needs to be it starts with SAFE. I was one of the first of the public to get the polio vaccine. We were called polio pioneers, but the vaccine had gone through over 6 years of testing before we were given the shots. We need to make sure whatever vaccine we are given is both safe and effective and that is not going to be as soon as November 3rd. I know one thing for sure, if they start giving people the vaccine by then, I will not be taking the shots.
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Smart News
| Smithsonian Magazine
This links gives you a real good idea why rushing a vaccine out for political reasons is not a good idea. Of the 45,000 people who took the vaccine 450 got sick with Guillian-Barre syndrome and 45 people died. Many of the others suffered the rest of their lives with the results of the syndrome. The vaccine was of course pulled. Do we really want to go through this again with more people dying for strictly political reasons. Every scientist I have read says to never try out an unproven vaccine on the general public until it is determine SAFE and effective. You might notice that everytime they talk about what a good vaccine needs to be it starts with SAFE. I was one of the first of the public to get the polio vaccine. We were called polio pioneers, but the vaccine had gone through over 6 years of testing before we were given the shots. We need to make sure whatever vaccine we are given is both safe and effective and that is not going to be as soon as November 3rd. I know one thing for sure, if they start giving people the vaccine by then, I will not be taking the shots.