On November 13, 2009, health officials in China reported two deaths linked to the H1N1 vaccine. One victim was a teacher who suffered a heart attack just hours after receiving the shot and the details on the second death were not immediately released.http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0%2C8599%2C1939575%2C00.html

As early as October 2009, some bloggers cited reports from Swedish newspapers stating that there were at least two deaths possibly connected to the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix.http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expressen.se%2FNyheter%2F1.1752585%2Ftva-personer-avled-kort-efte%20r-vaccinering

A report in The Budapest Times stated that a 64-year-old woman died 2 days after receiving the H1N1 vaccine and in Israel, the media reported that four people died after receiving flu shots on October 23, 2009.http://wcco.com/health/Death.Flu.Vaccination.2.274724.htmlhttp://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1416%3Afifth-qswine-fluq-vaccine-death-in-sweden-vaccinations-still-go-ahead-as-planned&catid=41%3Ahighlighted-news&Itemid=105&lang=en

In 1976, the U.S. rushed a similar H1N1 vaccination during an outbreak of the swine flu on a military base. There were 25 deaths possibly linked to that particular vaccination as well as hundreds of cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome. In August 2009, health officials in Great Britain sent a letter to neurologists in advance of immunization campaigns in the U.S. and Great Britain in the fall of 2009.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/Swine_flu/article6797993.ecehttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539880,00.html