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SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are not free of neurological side effects

14 November 2021

"The most common neurological symptoms included dizziness, headache, pain, muscle spasms, myalgia and paresthesias, which are expected to occur as acute, transient effects of the vaccination. Rare cases of tremor, diplopia, tinnitus, dysphonia, seizures and reactivation of herpes zoster have been also reported. There were also cases of stroke (n = 17), GBS (n = 32), facial palsy (n = 190), transverse myelitis (n = 9) and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) (n = 6) in the VAERS database."-

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Finsterer, J. and Scorza, F.A. (2021), SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are not free of neurological side effects. Acta Neurol Scand, 144: 109-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/ane.13451