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Swine Flu Vaccine for 2 year olds
A question from one of our readers:
How safe is it to give swine flu vaccine to 2 year olds? Are the side effects including guillian barre people are talking about on newspapers really true? Is it safer to risk the infection or the injection?
Dr. Fearne replies:
According to the manufacturers (GSK in our case) the incidence of Guillian-Barre syndrome following vaccination for swine flu is less then 1 in 10,000. The risk of contacting the disease (swine flu) amongst non-immunized individuals, with the attendant possible complications, is of course, much higher.
Chris Fearne
This article has been kindly contributed by Surgeon Chris Fearne. Read more similar articles on his blogspot: http://chrisfearne.blogspot.com/
Swine Flu Vaccine for 2 year olds 
