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

• Swedish normally has a ~10% hesistancy rate for vaccination.
• 26% say they will not seek a vaccine
• 28% say they are undecided.
• Refusals are believed to be due to concerns over side effects.
• ~440 damage claims have been paid out linking an adjuvent in the H1N1 vaccine to causing permanent narcolepsy.
• Astra Zeneca has been caught making "reporting errors" that may "erode public confidence."

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.”