Swedish experience with swine flu vaccine sparks fears as WHO warns of ‘infodemic’

Created on 2020-11-28T22:21:58-06:00

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For Meissa Chebbi, 21, who like hundreds of other young Swedes suffered debilitating narcolepsy after a mass vaccination campaign against the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic, the vaccine is not something she will be rushing to get. “I will never recommend that,” Chebbi told AFP when asked about taking a speedily developed vaccine. “Unless you really have to take it because of life-threatening circumstances.”