CDC Officials Investigating Nervous System Disorder in New Vaccine Recipients

Published on March 1, 2024

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials this week said they are investigating a link between a neurological disorder in older Americans and newly approved vaccines. Vaccines for RSV, known as respiratory syncytial virus, might have caused cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), which has been described as a condition, officials told a CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and reporters on Thursday. Those officials said that data suggests about two cases out of 100,000 people who have received the RSV vaccine developed the condition. In 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s Abrysvo and Glaxo-Smith-Kline’s Arexvy shots for the virus....