Canadians Contract Guillain-Barre Syndrome After Swine Flu Shot In Same Doctor’s Office

Paralyzing nerve disease just a coincidence according to health officials
Steve Watson & Paul Watson
Prison Planet
Feb. 04, 2010

Two residents of Markham in Ontario, Canada have been diagnosed with the debilitating nerve disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome, after both taking the H1N1 flu shot in the same doctor’s office just two days apart.

The Toronto Sun reports that Donna Hartlen, a 39-year-old mother is unable to walk or chew solid food properly.

Hartlen has no history of illness and was perfectly health until the 29th December when she collapsed and was rushed to hospital.

Hartlen is adamant that the illness stems from a H1N1 shot she received two weeks before her symptoms suddenly appeared.

She became even more convinced this was the case when she encountered Don Gibson in the room next door, who received the same shot just two days before her, from the same GP. He too has been diagnosed with GBS.

"It's way too coincidental," insists the slight mom, her words slurred because the right side of her face will not move. "It's either a bad batch or a lot more people are getting this than they are talking about."

Her 80-year-old neighbour is equally convinced that the H1N1 vaccine to blame. "It must have been a bad batch," Gibson believes. "But nobody is saying anything. I know I signed a piece of paper and there's no liability but it's pretty scary."

Despite GBS's clear historical link with the swine flu shot after more got ill from the vaccine than got swine flu during the 1976 mass vaccination program, allied with the fact that health officials last year warned neurologists that they needed to look out for increases in cases of the brain disorder following the launch of the immunization program, doctors and health officials are keeping quiet on the issue.

"Not a single doctor we've talked with will even remotely discuss that it's the H1N1 shot," Hartlen tells the Toronto Star. "They almost pretend they don't hear you. They don't want to alarm the public and they don't want you to stir up trouble."

The public health agency in Canada says they haven't seen any unusual spike in GBS.

Hartlen is seeking government support to help care for her two young children while she suffers from the nerve disorder, however she has hit a wall of silence:

“They're the ones who push this vaccine. They promote it every five minutes on TV. So I do what they say and I get GBS and they're not going to help me?” Hartlen said.

"It's a horror story of how little Ontario will do to help patients that come down with this after the government promotes it so much," added her husband, Wayne Burke.

Similar cases of GBS, as well as other neurological disorders have been reported following the H1N1 shots in the U.S., Britain and France.

Last November, a high school athlete from Virginia was diagnosed with GBS hours after receiving a swine flu shot, but health authorities dismissed the connection as a coincidence, precisely as they resolved to do long before the H1N1 vaccination program even started.

Efforts on behalf of health authorities to claim that debilitating side-effects and nerve disorders such as GBS have no connection to the vaccine, despite the fact that they are clearly listed on vaccine inserts as potential dangers, is unsurprising considering this is precisely what officials resolved to do before the swine flu mass vaccination program began.

Back In September, Reuters reported on how public health officials were expecting "an avalanche of so-called adverse event reports, which are reports of death, illness or other health trauma," in the two weeks after people receive the vaccine.

Authorities therefore resolved to dismiss any connection to the swine flu shots a host of heart attacks, strokes and miscarriages that "will be blamed on the H1N1 vaccine," effectively performing a blanket diagnosis months in advance.

In November, the U.S. government appointed what the media ludicrously billed as an "independent" group of health advisors who were tasked with whitewashing adverse reactions to the swine flu vaccine and 'explaining' them to the public as mere coincidence.

The group is headed up by none other than Dr. Marie McCormick of the Harvard School of Public Health. McCormick and her affiliated organizations have routinely issued reports over the past 10 years supporting the government's position on the link between vaccines and autism, dismissing a correlation entirely despite overwhelming evidence that contradicts this notion. McCormick has been widely criticized by other health experts for her dogged denial of the link between vaccines and autism.

Pharmaceutical companies can be assured that they won't face reprisals for injuries and deaths that will inevitably occur as a result of exposing millions to mercury and squalene additives that are contained in the H1N1 shot during a mass vaccination program, because the government has already acted to provide them with blanket immunity from lawsuits.

"Vaccine makers and federal officials will be immune from lawsuits that result from any new swine flu vaccine, under a document signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius," reported the Associated Press last summer.