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Show Erratum Reflections and Advice from an Aging Academic: Erratum In my Jacobson Lecture article (1), I wrote that Arthur Asbury conducted the epidemiological study that disproved the link between the swine flu vaccinations of 1976 and Guillain Barre syndrome (GBS). The study was actually performed by Langmuir et al and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in June 1984 (2). I initially learned of it in an article by Asbury in the October 1984 issue of the Annals of Neurology (3). Moreover, Langmuir et al (2), and other studies, did show a slight increase in GBS up to 5 weeks after vaccinations, but probably not beyond. REFERENCES 1. Daroff RB. Reflections and advice from an aging academic. J Neuroophthalmol 2009;29:338-41. 2. Langmuir AD, Bregman DJ, Kurland LT, et al. An epidemiologic and clinical evaluation of Guillain-Barre syndrome reported in association with the administration of swine influenza vaccines. Am J Epidemiol 1984;119:841-79. 3. Asbury AK. The swine flu incident revisited. Ann Neurol 1984;16:513-4. 114 Erratum: J Neuro-Ophthalmol 2010; 30: 114 Erratum |