http://unsilentgeneration.com/2009/04/27/swine-flu-who-will-bring-home-the-bacon/ A site for pissed-off progressive old folks...because we're not dead yet. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://unsilentgeneration.com/2009/04/27/swine-flu-who-will-bring-home-the-bacon/#comment-190 Cleve Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:22:27 +0000 http://unsilentgeneration.com/?p=786#comment-190 In October 1976, while a student at a state run college in Colorado, I was given what was to be the first of three shots for protection against what was expected to be a swine flu pandemic. Upon waking the next day, I could not move my legs. My room mates took me to the college infirmary where I was told by the college doctor's, "temporary paralysis was one of the expected side effects of the vaccine and if the paralysis did not subside by the next day to come back." My paralysis did "disappear" by the following day. By December of 1976, the U.S. Government suspended any further shots of the swine flu vaccine due to the deaths of several people and the development of Guillain-Barre syndrome by many other people. I wonder what advances have been made in science to ensure this "fiasco" is not repeated? In October 1976, while a student at a state run college in Colorado, I was given what was to be the first of three shots for protection against what was expected to be a swine flu pandemic.
Upon waking the next day, I could not move my legs.
My room mates took me to the college infirmary where I was told by the college doctor’s, “temporary paralysis was one of the expected side effects of the vaccine and if the paralysis did not subside by the next day to come back.”
My paralysis did “disappear” by the following day.
By December of 1976, the U.S. Government suspended any further shots of the swine flu vaccine due to the deaths of several people and the development of Guillain-Barre syndrome by many other people.
I wonder what advances have been made in science to ensure this “fiasco” is not repeated?

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