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Looking back at swine flu vaccine – Deutsche Welle
Just over a decade ago, Europeans mass immunized against a global pandemic — in that case the swine flu, or H1N1. A Swedish vaccine expert tells DW about some of…
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DW: We keep seeing vaccine skeptics referencing the swine flu pandemic in 2009 as the reason they won’t be taking a COVID-19 vaccine. Let’s rewind what happened?
Matti Sällberg: In March of 2009, we had an outbreak of a new flu virus. It stemmed, probably, from pigs in Mexico, and then it spread as a pandemic all over the world. The major difference to many other flu outbreaks was that young people tended to become very sick. And alarm bells…
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