As the US President Barack Obama declared on Saturday the swine flu epidemic as a national emergency, voices that doubt the H1N1 vaccine have been increasing because of the neurological side effects than can result from it and the death cases that have been reported following its administration.
After 46 States in the United States have been affected by the swine flu and the widespread exceeded what has been seen during the peak of the disease in June, while the death cases exceeded 1000 in the US alone; Barack Obama decided Friday evening to sign a proclamation that allows doctors to bypass certain federal requirements, for authorities to handle emergency cases more easy.
Since the swine flu cases reached a record high in some areas, the European governments have started mass swine flu vaccination programs, in an attempt to control the flu pandemic. Yet the reactions that have been report following the vaccination are increasing and in some cases it led to death.
Some patients have been reporting allergic reactions including dizziness, rashes, itching and pain in the chest after having been given the vaccine, other patients experienced pain in arm near the injection, as well as muscle and joint pain; others felt ill and had mild influenza symptoms.
However of Hungary and Sweden have been reporting some death cases that occurred after the administration of the vaccine. Since in most of those cases were implicated old people, now the autopsies are trying to find if there is any link between the death of the patients who suffered from chronic and mild heart disease.
Meanwhile in the US a 25 years old woman have been diagnosed following the vaccination with Dystonia, which is a debilitating neurological condition when the patient looses the ability to walk, talk normally and focus on more than one stimuli a time.
This raises the question if this vaccine is as safe as it thought it was, and who are the patients who can be administered this vaccine safely. Yet since the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that at least 5,000 people have died of swine flu and 414,945 people worldwide were infected with this disease, the hysteria over the administration of an H1N1 vaccine to as many as possible is too big to pay attention to those details!!!