Regulators have revealed that 160,000 doses of the Novartis vaccine, Agrippal, are being recalled after ‘particles’ were found in the vials. A Department of Health spokesman said: “We are aware of the recall of two batches of...
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A Windsor woman who blames her paralysis on the flu vaccine says she thinks she should be compensated by the government because she can’t go back to work. “There’s just so much I can’t do,” Marlene Turkington, 59, said. Though grateful for having...
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TEN deaths have been linked to the nation’s flu immunisation program since the 2009 swine flu pandemic, including elderly patients and unborn babies. The CSL flu vaccine, Panvax — which taxpayers spent $131 million stockpiling for the...
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Under the plans a new universial vaccination programme could start in the autumn of 2014 with a nasal spray vaccine, called Fluenz, that avoids the use of needles. Schoolchildren from the age of five would be vaccinated every year. Currently only...
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Abstract At some Danish workplaces, healthy employees are offered an influenza vaccination, although vaccination has not been proven to have a protective effect on healthy adults. This article gives an overview of the effect of influenza...
Read more Dear Editors, This detailed study provides solid evidence for not vaccinating high risk patients against influenza H1N1. One thing is developing and measuring antibodies against influenza virus H1N1, and another thing is to actually obtain...
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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...
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The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices updated influenza vaccine recommendations to now include children who are allergic to eggs. Based on recommendations from the clinical immunization safety assessment hypersensitivity working...
Read more A group of children who had cystic fibrosis and received annual influenza vaccines developed lower cross-reactive virus-specific CD8+ T-cell responses than unvaccinated children, according to a study by Rogier Bodewes, DVM, and colleagues from...
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THIS time last year, Saba Button was a beautiful, thriving 11-month-old. She’d just taken her first three steps, and spoken her first three words. She was perfect in almost every way. Her mum and dad, Kirsten and Mick, chose to follow the...
Read more UP to a million under-fives have been inoculated against the flu virus with a controversial vaccine containing poisonous mercury. Pandemrix has been given to almost a quarter of all healthy babies and young children as well as thousands of older...
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Flu shots triggered seizures in young Australian children, causing more harm than benefit, according to a study released this week in the epidemiology journal Eurosurveillance. The flu vaccine, more commonly known as Fluvax, produced about four...
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