Doctors have been put on alert for a deadly disease linked to swine flu jabs.
The Health Protection Agency has told neurologists to look out for a rise in Guillain-Barr Syndrome - in which paralysis of the breathing muscles can cause death by suffocation - when vaccination starts in the next few weeks.
The link was made following a mass immunisation programme in the U.S., in which a swine flu jab was blamed for more deaths than the disease itself.
More than 40million Americans were vaccinated after an outbreak of swine flu at an army base in 1976.
Doctors have been put on alert for a deadly disease linked to swine flu jabs.
The Health Protection Agency has told neurologists to look out for a rise in Guillain-Barr Syndrome - in which paralysis of the breathing muscles can cause death by ...