Guillain Barre DEFINITELY linked to 1976 Swine Flu Vaccine

http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2009/09/guillain-barre-definitely-linked-to.html

From Meryl Nass, M.D.:

Over and over, I have seen media reports that claim, regarding the 1976 flu vaccine and Guillain Barre Syndrome, "scientists never proved whether that link was real or coincidence"--as reported in Lauran Neergard's Associated Press article today.

I find examples of historical revisionism difficult to stomach. Why is this [false] mantra being repeated over and over?

Back in February 2008, before there was a swine flu pandemic, Dr. John Iskander, acting head of the CDC's Immunization Safety Office, had this to say about the link:

"A proven association between the 1976-1977 swine influenza vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome halted that particular national vaccination campaign."

His article was titled, Monitoring the safety of annual and pandemic influenza vaccines: lessons from the US experience, and it was published in Expert Review of Vaccines. Here is an excerpt:

Although a great deal of safety data has been accumulated, concerns remain regarding rare, serious adverse events following immunization. A proven association between the 1976-1977 swine influenza vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome halted that particular national vaccination campaign. Recently, annual influenza vaccines have been associated with novel adverse events, for example, oculorespiratory syndrome in Canada. Any vaccine used against an influenza strain of pandemic potential will have an incompletely described safety profile. Thus, the challenge of influenza vaccine safety is to detect new safety concerns that may arise during seasonal campaigns, while preparing vaccine safety systems for the timely detection of adverse events in the setting of a pandemic.

BTW, the authors of all other reviews I found in the National Library of Medicine database on the subject of vaccines and GBS agreed with the link between them.