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    2009 swine flu vaccine linked with small risk of paralysis disorder

    Americans who received the H1NI flu vaccine, also known as the swine flu vaccine, in 2009 and 2010 had a very small but real increase in their risk for developing a rare neurological disorder, a new study finds.[sidebar]Among people who were vaccinated, cases of  Guillain-Barré syndrome  were about twice as common during the first six weeks after receiving the vaccination than they were after that.However, because a large number of people received the shot, and because Guillain-Barré syndrome would be expected to occur in some individuals regardless of whether or not they had been vaccinated, the actual increase in risk was extremely small: about 1.5 extra cases of the condition for every 1 million people vaccinated, the researchers said.Given that the  swine flu vaccine  is thought to have prevented 700,000 to 1.5 million cases of flu, and 4,000 to 10,000 hospital admissions during the years in which it was given, the benefits of the vaccine greatly outweighed the risks, the researche...

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