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The truth about flu shots and vaccines?

What's your opinion on it? I hear a lot about it on both sides, both for and against. It's a very controversial subject, but I'm just interested in everyone's opinions. How has it affected you or someone you love? Have you had an experience with it?
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hunkalove · 70-79, M
The only flu shot I've had was in 1976 when we were supposed to have a Swine Flu epidemic. More people died from the shot than from the flu.
@hunkalove Really ! What sources, please ?
@bijouxbroussard
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2013/09/30/public-health-legacy-1976-swine-flu/
"Some of the American public’s hesitance to embrace vaccines – the flu vaccine in particular – can be attributed to the long-lasting effects of a failed 1976 political campaign to mass-vaccinate the public against a strain of the swine flu virus. This government-led campaign was widely viewed as a debacle and put an irreparable dent in future public health initiatives, as well as negatively influenced the public’s perception of both the flu and the flu shot in this country."

"The Swine Flu Program was marred by a series of logistical problems ranging from the production of the wrong vaccine strain to a confrontation over liability protection to a temporal connection of the vaccine and a cluster of deaths among an elderly population in Pittsburgh. The most damning charge against the vaccination program was that the shots were correlated with an increase in the number of patients diagnosed with an obscure neurological disease known as Guillain–Barré syndrome (1)."
Earthwrap · 41-45, M
@TwiddlerofThumbs I found a CDC citation for this I posted below.
hunkalove · 70-79, M
@TwiddlerofThumbs Thank you, Twiddler. I remember it from newspapers and TV when it happened.
@hunkalove No problem. I was an infant when it happened and really knew nothing about it until you mentioned it.