Quoting I ♥ my COP||MP:“ oh really? http://www.kctv5.com/investigations/20710436/detail.html”
1. This article was written over a month ago, before more children died in one month from h1n1 than normally do inan entire flu season, so the point about only 200 people being sick in the 70's is moot in my opinion.
2. The fact that only 200 people were sickened is likely because so many people were vaccinated in the 70's before they stopped the campaign.
3. If you read the research about the vaccine given in the 70's, looking back, the number of people who got GBS was still so low that they are unable to determine if it was a causal relationship.
4. They don't test every flu vaccine for a year before they give it to the public. If they did it that way, it would be too late for it to be an effective vaccine.
5. I don't see where it says in that article that this vaccine is more similar to the vaccine of the 1970's than the seasonal flu vaccine.
6. This flu is milder in the elderly and maybe in infants, but it is more severe in children and young adults. Maybe at the time this article was written we weren't so aware of that, but now we are. Heck, two months ago I didn't think the vaccine was neccessary either, but now that I see kids are dying from this illness at a greater rate than they do from seasonal flu, I want my kids to have it.