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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
It's been a long time ago, I think in the late 70's or so, there was a flu virus going around that was worrisome, new and improved or whatever. Just don't remember the name of it anymore. There was a new vaccine that was rushed through it's testing and wasn't proved to be totally safe. I was in the army at the time and we were required to be vaccinated, no refusing. Myself and several of my fellow soldiers had adverse reactions to the vaccine, nothing serious, but we had fevers and aches from it. I don't recall any serious reactions or deaths but I didn't like being an involuntary lab rat. The government knew of the risks but decided GI's were a great source for test subjects and seemed to believe that the ends justified the means.
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1976 Swine flu, H1N1. The vaccine caused Guillain-barre syndrome in some people. It's an auto-immune disease. The first GP I worked for was on the front lines for that one and told me the whole sordid story of it. That is the primary reason vaccines take so long these days.