A Brighton High School graduate is dead and his mother believes it’s because of a flu shot. Lori Webb is beyond grateful to the doctors who tried to save her son, and she said even they can’t agree on what killed 19-year-old Chandler Webb. She...
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Abstract Objective To evaluate the risk of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in England targeted for vaccination with ASO3 adjuvanted pandemic A/H1N1 2009 vaccine (Pandemrix) from October 2009. Design Retrospective analysis. Clinical...
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In the United States, annual vaccination against seasonal influenza is recommended for all persons aged ≥6 months (1). Each season since 2004–05, CDC has estimated the effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccine to prevent influenza-associated...
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The Cochrane Review has found that there is insufficient evidence that flu vaccination of medical staff prevents flu in patients and there is also a lack of evidence that wearing a mask prevents transmission of the flu. See this article for the...
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The UK drugs regulator has asked Novartis to recall two batches of flu vaccine after the company reported ‘quality defects’. The move follows a halt on use of Agrippal vaccine by several EU countries including Italy, France and Germany. A...
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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...
Read more 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...
Read more 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...
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