Irish Health.com
[Posted: Tue 31/08/2010 by Niall Hunter, Editor - www.irishhealth.com]
The European Medicines Agency has launched a review of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, following reports of a link with the vaccine and the sleep disorder narcolepsy.
The review is to be carried out by the agency at the request of the European Commission following a limited number of cases of narcolepsy following Pandemrix vaccination, reported mainly in Finland and Sweden.
Washington Post
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Federal health officials are investigating the first hints of any possible significant complications from the H1N1 vaccine, but stressed that the concerns will probably turn out to be a false alarm.
The latest analysis of data has detected what could be a somewhat elevated rate of Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause paralysis and death; Bell’s palsy, a temporary facial paralysis; and thrombocytopenia, which is a low level of blood platelets, officials reported Friday. The data is being collected through five of the networks the government is using to monitor people who were inoculated against the swine flu.
theage.com.au
MARK RUSSELL
April 25, 2010
DOCTORS have urged the public to continue getting their flu shots and not to panic over the temporary ban on vaccinations for children under five.
Australian Medical Association vice-president Steve Hambleton said the children who had fallen ill after being vaccinated might simply have been the victims of a bad batch.
WA News
April 23, 2010 – 8:06PM
CHRIS THOMSON
WA’s chief public health officer Tarun Weeramanthri has defended the response time in closing down the state’s juvenile flu vaccine program amid revelations that children were presenting with convulsions more than two weeks ago.
ABC News
Australia
Updated Fri Apr 23, 2010 5:32pm AEST
The number of children suffering adverse reactions after receiving the free seasonal flu vaccine may be severely underestimated because health authorities have no way of monitoring people’s reactions, experts say.
April 13, 2010
(AFP) – 12 hours ago
GENEVA — The Internet had a disruptive impact on the handling of the flu pandemic by fanning speculation and rumours, officials said as a world health probe on Tuesday examined communications on swine flu.
World Health Organisation influenza chief Keiji Fukuda told 29 health experts reviewing the international response to the pandemic that the Internet had added a new dimension to flu alerts over the past year.
Inventors: Jens-Peter Gregersen
Agents: NOVARTIS VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS INC.
Assignees: CHIRON BEHRING GMBH & CO.
Origin: EMERYVILLE, CA US
IPC8 Class: AA61K3900FI
USPC Class: 4242061
Abstract:
Influenza viruses for use in preparing human vaccines have traditionally been grown on embryonated hen eggs, although more modern techniques grow the virus in mammalian cell culture e.g. on Vero, MDCK or PER.C6 cell lines. The inventor has realised that the conditions used for influenza virus 5 culture can increase the risk that pathogens other than influenza virus may grow in the cell lines and have identified specific contamination risks
Top News
Submitted by Prakash Sharma on Thu, 04/08/2010 – 13:30
The four new studies conducted by Canadian researchers conclude that the traditional seasonal flu vaccine seems to have boosted the risk of infection with pandemic H1N1 swine flu by almost double.
Los Angeles Times
Booster Shots
March 25, 2010
As early as last July, federal health officials warned doctors and pregnant women that the H1N1 (swine) flu virus appeared especially hazardous for pregnant women. In the fall, officials urged pregnant women to be vaccinated against H1N1, although surveys showed that pregnant women often hesitated to get any vaccines. Health authorities also instructed doctors, by way of several bulletins to practitioners nationwide, that pregnant women who showed symptoms of the flu should be treated immediately with antiviral medications, even before H1N1 infection was confirmed.
Ministry denies link, launches an inquiry
Bangkok Post
January 29, 2010
H1N1 flu vaccinations among pregnant women have been suspended after a woman who received a jab lost her baby to miscarriage a day later.
The Public Health Ministry yesterday denied any link between the vaccinations and the foetal death, but as a precaution suspended flu shots among pregnant women pending an investigation into the miscarriage in the southern province of Satun.
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