No substantial link between swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barre syndrome, confirm experts

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 02:00 in Health & Medicine

Adjuvanted vaccines used during the 2009 swine flu pandemic did not increase the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome substantially, if at all, finds a large Europe-wide study published in the British Medical Journal today. An adjuvant is a substance added to a vaccine to stimulate the immune system to respond to the vaccine.

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