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    Doctors have been put on alert for Guillain-Barr Syndrome (GBS) i. e. a paralysis of the breathing muscles, a deadly disease with a link to swine flu vaccines. The syndrome affects around 1,500 people in Britain every year, attacking the nervous system and resulting in temporary paralysis.

    With swine-flu vaccinations scheduled to start in the next few weeks, the Health Protection Agency has warned neurologists to look out for an increase in GBS, in which paralysis of the breathing muscles can cause death by suffocation.

    A mass immunisation programme in the U. S. that saw swine flu vaccinations blamed for more deaths than swine flu itself, led to a link being made between the vaccination and the cause of death.

    Over 40-million Americans were vaccinated after swine flu broke out at an army base in 1976. The programme had to be abandoned after hundreds of cases of GBS were diagnosed and 25-people died from it.

    Elizabeth Miller, HPA Head Of Immunisation, in a letter to the Association of British Neurologists said: 'GBS has been identified as a condition needing enhanced surveillance when the swine flu vaccines are rolled out.'

    With 13-million Britons due for the jab from October onwards, the warning adds to concerns about its safety, especially for those suffering from asthma, diabetes, heart disease, renal disease, or who have a compromised immune system.

    It is held that normal seasonal flu vaccine should be given at the same time.
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    I had the swine flu. I was 38 weeks pregnant. And honestly, I've had COLDS that were more severe. H1N1 rarely causes issues. The seasonal flu can kill up to 500,000 people a year (in ONE season!). H1N1 has been around for how many months??? Hasn't killed very many people in my opinion (think about other diseases that kill many more in a lesser amount of time). It's like any other contagious illness -- but because it's new, and there's not much left in the world to talk about these days, the media grabs hold and starts world-wide panic.
    Almost any illness can kill us -- everyone should just take preventative measures, think optomistically, and maybe this H1N1 will subside, like the other H1N1 flus did years ago.
    Not to make it sound like it's not serious, but I think people need to take a look at the bigger picture. Everything is going to kill us. The media will move on to something else. When cancer entered the picture, they stopped talking about HIV/AIDS. Now it's H1n1.

    Swine flu has been going around this area quite a bit. The daycares here have installed hand sanatizing machines and are encouraging parents to send their kids to school with sanatizer. Now the fire departments have to go around to every daycare and school to teach fire safety because the amount of alcohol these little kids carry around in their backpacks is a major fire hazard. Wouldn't it be easier to teach kids how to wash their hands correctly???
    I've been BOO'd!

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