Let's look back to 1976.

Perhaps the time when the media actually did their job.

We're going to talk about something called

Guillain-Barré syndrome, but we first really heard about this link with the vaccine

around 1976 during the swine flu outbreak. Take a look.

Okay. Remember the swine flu scare of 1976?

That was the year the US government told us all that swine flu could turn out to be a killer

that could spread across the nation. And Washington decided that every man, woman, and child in the nation

should get a shot to prevent a nationwide outbreak, a pandemic.

Well, 46 million of us, obediently, took the shot.

And now, 4,000 Americans are claiming damages from Uncle Sam,

amounting to $3.5 billion. Because of what happened when they took that shot,

by far the greatest number of the claims, two-thirds of them, are for neurological damage or even death.

One of those who did roll up her sleeve was Judy Roberts.

She was perfectly healthy and active woman. When in November of 1976, she took her shot.

Two weeks later, she says she began to feel enumnest starting up her legs.

I joked about it at that time. I said, I'll be numb to the knees by Friday, is it?

This keeps up. By the following week, I was totally paralyzed.

So, completely paralyzed, in fact, that they had to operate on her to enable her to breathe.

And for six months, Judy Roberts was a quadruplegic.

The diagnosis? A neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome, GBS for short.

You know, we've used clips from that 60-minute episode so many times.

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