"The worrisome link between swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barre syndrome was heightened in 1976, when dozens of cases broke out during a swine flu vaccination campaign, prompting the federal government to shut down the effort," the newspaper adds. But analysis by the CDC, published in the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, "revealed that about the same rate of people contracted GBS after receiving this recent swine flu vaccine as have historically contracted it from common flu vaccine," according to the newspaper.

Based on additional analysis of the reported side effects of the H1N1 vaccine so far, the CDC has concluded the vaccine to be safe, according to the newspaper (Schneider, 6/2).

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