By Rob Stein

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 24, 2010

Federal health officials are investigating the first hints of any possible significant complications from the H1N1 vaccine, but stressed that the concerns will probably turn out to be a false alarm.

The latest analysis of data has detected what could be a somewhat elevated rate of Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause paralysis and death; Bell’s palsy, a temporary facial paralysis; and thrombocytopenia, which is a low level of blood platelets, officials reported Friday. The data is being collected through five of the networks the government is using to monitor people who were inoculated against the swine flu.

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“Thursday, December 3, 2009 is one of the drugs used on the sickest patients, and it is not effective against the H1N1 virus in only a few cases. But epidemiologists said experience with other flu strains shows that resistance can spread quickly, making monitoring and prevention crucial”. Click Here for entire article

The AP reported yesterday that President Obama has declared H1N1 a National emergency.  ”The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October”.

New York State backed off their mandate yesterday (requiring all New York Healthcare workers to receive H1N1  vaccine or lose their JOB) under the cover of a vaccine shortage.

Vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur said Wednesday that Children under 10 are likely to need2 swine flu vaccine doses.

For Updates on the Swine Flu please click here to access the the CDC website

the FDA has approved H1N1 vaccines made by Novartis AG.

H1N1 vaccinations scheduled to begin in three weeks in US.
Bloomberg News (9/14, Randall, Gale) reports, “Swine flu vaccinations may begin in three weeks, earlier than previously anticipated, after the first US tests found a single shot to be effective in eight to 10 days, US health officials said.