A high school athlete from Virginia was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome hours after receiving a swine flu shot, but health authorities are attempting to dismiss the connection as a coincidence, precisely as they resolved to do long before the H1N1 vaccination program even started.
14-year-old Jordan McFarland developed severe headaches, muscle spasms and weakness in his legs following a swine flu shot. He was diagnosed by doctors at Inova Fairfax Hospital as having Guillain-Barre syndrome, the nerve disorder that was prevalent in recipients of the vaccine during the last mass swine flu vaccination program in 1976.
"Connin and Jordan's father, Calvin McFarland, both 38, believe the shot sparked the illness that came on 18 hours after the boy's vaccination," reports MSNBC.
Despite GBS's clear historical link with the swine flu shot, allied with the fact that health officials back in August warned neurologists that they needed to look out for increases in cases of the brain disorder following the launch of the immunization program, asked about the case of McFarland, the CDC's Dr. Claudia J. Vellozzi claimed that there was "no clear link between the new vaccine and the disease."
Efforts on behalf of health authorities to claim that debilitating side-effects and nerve disorders such as GBS have no connection to the vaccine, despite the fact that they are clearly listed on vaccine inserts as potential dangers, is unsurprising considering this is precisely what officials resolved to do before the swine flu mass vaccination program began.
Back In September, Reuters reported on how public health officials were expecting "an avalanche of so-called adverse event reports, which are reports of death, illness or other health trauma," in the two weeks after people receive the vaccine.
"We are going to be overwhelmed with potential events," said Mike Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota.
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