Vaccinations have been hailed as one of the greatest medical inventions of all time. When Jonas Salk created the vaccine for Polio, it was considered a miracle. The vaccination for smallpox before that was crude, but effective. The process, while still crude and...
Vaccines
Influenza Vaccines and Guillain Barre Syndrome
Influenza vaccines were first noted to be associated with Guillain Barre Syndrome during the 1976 swine flu epidemic, when it was found that the risk of getting paralysis from GBS was increased 4 to 8 times for people who took the vaccine. This increased risk lasted...