CDC: No clear GBS link to H1N1 Vaccine because WE SAY SO
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by admin
The following was in the news today and makes me wonder exactly what has to happen before the CDC would consider a case of GBS related to the vaccine?
In the article they state:
- Increased cases of GBS were found in patients who received a 1976 swine flu vaccine, but government health officials say they’ve seen no rise in the condition associated with the current outbreak.
- “It’s much less than we’d expect,” she said, adding that many cases go unreported.
- The GBS came on within 18 hours of the H1N1 vaccination.
- But Vellozzi said there’s no clear link between the new vaccine and the disease … “There are events that follow vaccination. That’s what they are, they happened to follow vaccination.
We know that it happens, we expect it to happen, it did not happen here because we say so. Case closed.
The gist is that yes it happens, but no individual case can ever be proven. Deja-vu.
This begs the question, but what exactly does it take to consider it a “clear link” in any specific case?
Filed under: CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, H1N1, Swine Flu, Vaccines
My brother got infected with H1N1 or Swine Flu in Mexico. He got a mild fever and luckily he did not die.
If you look at the pandemic of 1977, when H1N1 or Swine Flu re-emerged after a 20 year absence, there is no shift in age-related mortality pattern. The 1977 “pandemic” is, of course, not considered a true pandemic by experts today, for reasons that are not entierely consistent. It certainly was an antigenic shift and not an antigenic drift. As far as I have been able to follow the current events, the most significant factor seems to have been that most people, who were severely affected, were people with other medical conditions.
during the height of the H1N1 or Swine Flu epidemic, i was very afraid to get infected with this disease and i wore face mask whenever i got into heavily populated areas.
i remember being scared of getting infected by H1N1 during the height of the pandemic. at least two of my classmates got infected by H1N1.