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As someone who has had guillain barre, is it safe to receive the flu shot? im going through to be a nurse and they say i need it.
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Do NOT be concerned: There is a lot of hype regarding a relationship between swine flu vaccines and resultant guillain-barre syndrome, and was finally settled with a superb study published in nejm about 15-20 yrs ago, showing that flu shots have no relationship to development of guillain-barre, which in fact, can be a consequence of influenza a infection. Get your injection and ignore the "noise".
Answered 1/29/2019
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