When medical experts in Canada began investigating a school outbreak of “swine flu” (known technically as pH1N1) last year, they came to an unexpected conclusion: most of the people who suffered from the illness — characterized by fever and coughing — had been vaccinated against influenza. Instead of preventing the disease, the shots appeared to be causing it.
Researchers quickly conducted additional studies using different methods and a report on four of these studies was published in PLoS Med, a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the Public Library of Science.
Three of the four studies were case-control studies in which the researchers compared the number of flu cases between those who had received prior vaccination and healthy members of the general population or individuals who had an influenza-like illness but no sign of infection with an influenza virus.
All four studies (which included about 1,200 laboratory confirmed pH1N1 cases and 1,500 controls) showed that people who had received the vaccine the prior year had approximately 1.4-2.5 times increased chances of developing the flu.
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