#Glaxo :#Pandemrix -Social Minister promises compensation to narcoleptic children

Controversial vaccination

 

Published: söndag 12 februari kl 13:10 , Radio Sweden 2 gillar

 

Children and teenagers who developed narcolepsy after being administered the swine flu vaccination will be given compensation, Social Minister Göran Hägglund today told Swedish Radio News. The statement comes after parents of the affected demanded compensation from the government today.

Narcoleptic children "need individual ombudsmen" in swine flu vaccine case (Feb 12)

WHO confirms swine flu vaccine suspicions (Feb 08, 2011)

Connection found between swine flu shot and narcolepsy (Feb 01, 2011)

 

More than 150 children are believed to be affected after receiving the Pandemrix vaccine. Parent Thomas Norberg thinks more families may come forward after a series of reports on the vaccination drive in the daily Svenska Dagbladet.

When medical company GlaxoSmithKline sold the vaccine to the Swedish health authorities it signed off responsibility for any future side effects, which means any claim for compensation is a matter for the Swedish state.

Social Minister Göran Hägglund told Swedish Radio News that "there will be some kind of compensation but we are still looking at the details".


http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=4961023

#Ireland : #Pandemrix.-Almost 800 adverse reactions to swine flu vaccine identified

CARL O'BRIEN

 

THE SWINE flu vaccine has topped the list of drugs responsible for the largest number of suspected adverse reactions, new figures show.

A total of 779 suspected adverse reactions were linked to the vaccine between 2010 and 2011.

Most of these were relatively mild, such as localised swelling, gastrointestinal problems and flu-like symptoms.

However, health authorities have identified up to 30 cases of young people with the sleeping disorder narcolepsy as part of an investigation into a possible link between the condition and the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix.

Health authorities insist the vaccine is safe and that the risk-benefit balance for the jab remains positive.

The Irish Medicines Board said the high reporting rate linked with the pandemic vaccine reflected “both the extent of usage and repeated requests and reminders by the IMB and Health Service Executive for reporting of experience with their use”.

It added that the place of a medicine on an overall list of adverse reactions could not be taken as an indicator of safety or risk.

“The number of reports received cannot be used as a basis for determining the incidence of a reaction as neither the total number of reactions occurring, nor the number of patients using a medicine is known,” it said in a statement.

Overall, figures requested by The Irish Times show there were just over 6,000 adverse reaction reports from January 2010 to December 2011.

The anti-psychotic drug Clozapine, also known as Clozaril, ranks second-highest in the number of adverse reactions (543).

Common adverse effects of the drug include dizziness, rapid heartbeat, constipation, excess saliva production and weight gain.

The vaccine that protects girls against cervical cancer – the HPV vaccine – was responsible for the third highest number of reactions (507), followed by the vaccines used in childhood immunisation (379).

The Health Service Executive, meanwhile, has said that it is working to identify any potential cases of narcolepsy as part of ongoing clinical research into any possible link.

Preliminary data from Finland and Sweden in 2010 linked an increase in narcolepsy among young people with Pandemrix.

Swedish data estimated the vaccination might cause three cases of narcolepsy for every 100,000 vaccinations.

However, a more recent study has suggested that narcolepsy is triggered by the swine flu infection and not by the vaccine.

The young people in Ireland affected range in age from five to 21 years old. HSE clinics administered more than 900,000 doses of Pandemrix in 2009 and 2010.

The use of Pandemrix is no longer recommended in Ireland and GPs have been advised to return any remaining stocks.

This year’s seasonal flu vaccine does not contain Pandemrix.

Authorities in Finland have begun a compensation process that includes an initial payment and ongoing assessment of needs.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/0213/1224311686144.html

#IMB:Vaccine #Pandemrix -Three deaths may have link to flu jab

Three patient deaths have been reported to the State's drugs monitoring agency relating to administration of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix in the past two years, according to figures obtained by irishealth.com

The deaths occurred in a baby whose mother was given the vaccine, and in two elderly people.

And the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has told irishhealth.com that 139 deaths were linked to medicines in the top 10 list* (see below) that had the highest number of reported adverse reactions from January 2010 to December 2011.

The IMB has stressed that that three deaths reported to it in patients exposed to Pandemrix does not necessarily indicate a direct link between the vaccine and the deaths.

The Medicines Board says in many cases where patients' deaths were linked to drug or vaccine reactions, the death may have been caused by other factors, such as underlying illnesses or progression of the patients' disease, and many of the patients taking drugs where fatalities were reported were already seriously ill.

However, the Medicines Board cannot state for certain exactly how many of the deaths reported to it among those taking medicines may have been directly linked to a reaction to a particular drug/vaccine.

It says of those fatal reports received in relation to Pandemrix, two of the patients were aged over 80 years and were reported to have had pneumonia.

In the third case, the death reported was of a newborn infant.

Howwever, the IMB said the baby, whose mother had previously been given the Pandemrix vaccine, was seriously ill and had multiple post-birth complications. It said the infant's death was unlikely to have been a direct fatality as a result of an adverse reaction to the vaccine.

The deaths were recorded among 779 reports of adverse reactions to pandemic flu vaccines given to the IMB over the two-year period.

There have been reports of a possible link between Pandemrix and the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in young people.

The IMB said many people who received the H1N1 vaccines had chronic underlying medical conditions which put them at greater risk of developing serious complications.

Source: Irish Health, 29th February 2012.

#Kerala:Killer vaccine - Four children die in Kerala after administration of pentavalent vaccine

Four children have died in Kerala after they were administered pentavalent vaccine, which was introduced by Kerala government in its Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) on December 14, 2011. However, whether the administration of pentavalent vaccine is the reason for the death of these children is yet to be established.

According to sources, a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed by an NGO called Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) in the Kerala High Court at Ernakulam on behalf of parents of a female baby Ancy who died after receiving pentavalent vaccine on December 15, 2011. In the PIL, the HRLN has prayed to the court to stop vaccinating pentavalent vaccine to the other children as there is risk of death due to the vaccine. The PIL was filed on February 16 this year.

Advocate Sandhya Raju, who is representing the HRLN in the case, said that the untoward incident involving the 56-day old female baby Ancy happened on December 15 a day after she was administered the first dose of pentavalent vaccine at the community health center at Vithura in Thiruvananathapuram district on December 14, 2011. On the same day of vaccination, the baby developed fever and the next day she died.

Sources said that in the second case at Kattakkada, Thiruvananathapuram, another baby died after administering the pentavalent vaccine. In this case, the child had reaction on way home from government hospital after vaccination. They went back to same government hospital. But the child died there. The hospital asked to do post-mortem which the parents declined.

Experts argue that if the reaction occurred after the injection and there was no other cause for the reaction it must probably be due to the vaccine.

Source: Pharmabiz, 1st March 2012.

#Nandgaon : #OPV Vaccine - 8 Month old Baby Dies after Polio Drops

The Adverse Effects Following Immunisation (AEFI) committee at Ratnagiri, constituted by the state health department, will analyse the death of an eight-month-old baby girl who had received oral polio vaccine (OPV) drops in Nandgaon village on Sunday. The health department has also asked officials concerned to send a sample of the batch of polio vaccine administered to the baby for testing and analysis.

The eight-month-old baby girl who had received OPV drops at an immunisation booth at Nandgaon village in Ratnagiri district on Sunday around 11.30 am, developed convulsions around 5.30 pm and died at a private hospital at 8 pm, health officials said.

L S Sale, district health officer, Ratnagiri, said, "The baby girl was administered OPV at an immunisation booth set up at village Nandgaon at 11.30 am on Sunday. The family took the baby and her sisters back home. At around 5.30 pm, the baby developed symptoms following which she was rushed to a private hospital in Kervan, where she died at 8 pm."

"The baby had a history of fall. We are suspecting that an internal head injury might have caused convulsions in the baby," Sale said, adding, "All the other children who were vaccinated in Nandgaon are fine. Each vial of polio vaccine contains 15 to 18 doses. The other babies who received drops from the same vial are fine."

The authorities are trying to say it is a coincidence, like they do with all vaccine deaths.

Source: Times of India, 21st February 2012.

#Denmark : Vaccine #DTaP - Increased Risk of Febrile Seizures after DTaP

Context Vaccination with whole-cell pertussis vaccine carries an increased risk of febrile seizures, but whether this risk applies to the acellular pertussis vaccine is not known. In Denmark, acellular pertussis vaccine has been included in the combined diphtheria-tetanus toxoids-acellular pertussis–inactivated poliovirus– Haemophilus influenzae type b (DTaP-IPV-Hib) vaccine since September 2002.

Objective To estimate the risk of febrile seizures and epilepsy after DTaP-IPV-Hib vaccination given at 3, 5, and 12 months.

Design, Setting, and Participants A population-based cohort study of 378 834 children who were born in Denmark between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2008, and followed up through December 31, 2009; and a self-controlled case series (SCCS) study based on children with febrile seizures during follow-up of the cohort.

Main Outcome Measures Hazard ratio (HR) of febrile seizures within 0 to 7 days (0, 1-3, and 4-7 days) after each vaccination and HR of epilepsy after first vaccination in the cohort study. Relative incidence of febrile seizures within 0 to 7 days (0, 1-3, and 4-7 days) after each vaccination in the SCCS study.

Results A total of 7811 children were diagnosed with febrile seizures before 18 months, of whom 17 were diagnosed within 0 to 7 days after the first (incidence rate, 0.8 per 100 000 person-days), 32 children after the second (1.3 per 100 000 person-days), and 201 children after the third (8.5 per 100 000 person-days) vaccinations. Overall, children did not have higher risks of febrile seizures during the 0 to 7 days after the 3 vaccinations vs a reference cohort of children who were not within 0 to 7 days of vaccination. However, a higher risk of febrile seizures was found on the day of the first (HR, 6.02; 95% CI, 2.86-12.65) and on the day of the second (HR, 3.94; 95% CI, 2.18-7.10), but not on the day of the third vaccination (HR, 1.07; 95% CI, 0.73-1.57) vs the reference cohort. On the day of vaccination, 9 children were diagnosed with febrile seizures after the first (5.5 per 100 000 person-days), 12 children after the second (5.7 per 100 000 person-days), and 27 children after the third (13.1 per 100 000 person-days) vaccinations. The relative incidences from the SCCS study design were similar to the cohort study design. Within 7 years of follow-up, 131 unvaccinated children and 2117 vaccinated children were diagnosed with epilepsy, 813 diagnosed between 3 and 15 months (2.4 per 1000 person-years) and 1304 diagnosed later in life (1.3 per 1000 person-years). After vaccination, children had a lower risk of epilepsy between 3 and 15 months (HR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.50-0.79) and a similar risk for epilepsy later in life (HR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.66-1.56) vs unvaccinated children.

Conclusions DTaP-IPV-Hib vaccination was associated with an increased risk of febrile seizures on the day of the first 2 vaccinations given at 3 and 5 months, although the absolute risk was small. Vaccination with DTaP-IPV-Hib was not associated with an increased risk of epilepsy.

Source: JAMA, 2012;307(8):823-831.

#Monsanto Are Killing The Bees.

Soon to be whistleblower who worked for Monsanto will be releasing documents detailing how Monsanto planned to kill off bee colonies in order to introduce a “new and improved” species of bee that will only pollinate Monsanto crops

Relevant: Monsanto buys company researching death of bees:
And for those who said crops aren’t pollinated by bees? You’re wrong. Alfalfa is. blog.targethealth.com/?p=58

And if you think Monsanto isn’t dominating our government? Read some cables released by wikileaks all about our officials asking for talking points from them, our ambassadords urging trade wars on their behalf:

themomu.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/wikileaks-cables-show-u-s-threatening-retaliation-if-europe-wont-accept-monsanto-corn/

Anonymous said...

This could be the cause of the unexplained disappearance of bees

cellphone towers basically? Not so says the next comment. Bees do fine away from agriculture in towns and cities where sprays are not used. There are mobile phone towers all around. This commenter actually keeps bees....read more

http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2012/01/monsanto-are-killing-bees.html