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# Swine Flu Shot Side Effects Beginning to Take Their Toll
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/swine_flu_shot_side_effects_beginning_to_take_their_toll_1611200/
- Published: 2009-11-16T22:42:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T18:45:07.000Z
- Description: Dr. Mercola reports that Jordan McFarland, 14, of Virginia left a hospital in a wheelchair after developing a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours of an H1N1 shot, and that a French health worker was diagnosed with the disorder six days after her swine flu vaccination.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Drug, Health News, H1H1, #vivvo-import

Posted by: [Dr. Mercola](http://articles.mercola.com/members/Dr.-Mercola/default.aspx?ref=foodconsumer.org)  
November 16 2009

Jordan McFarland, a 14-year-old boy from Virginia, is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu.

McFarland left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children in a wheelchair nearly a week after developing severe headaches, muscle spasms and weakness in his legs following a swine flu shot.

Jordan is among the first people in the U.S. to report developing the potentially life-threatening muscle disorder after receiving the H1N1 vaccine this fall. Increased cases of GBS were found in patients who received a 1976 swine flu vaccine.

Likewise, a young woman in France has also been diagnosed with GBS after a swine flu shot. The woman, identified only as a health worker, was diagnosed with GBS six days after she received the swine flu shot, according to the French health ministry

  
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[MSNBC November 12, 2009](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33845867/ns/health-cold%5Fand%5Fflu/?ref=foodconsumer.org)  

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[InfoWars.com November 13, 2009](http://www.infowars.com/french-woman-gets-crippling-illness-after-h1n1-vaccine/?ref=foodconsumer.org)