Fri February 4, 2011
Sleeping sickness affects two toddlers
by Arianne Mantel
Amsterdam - Two children aged four years in our country were hit by the sleeping sickness narcolepsy after vaccination with the flu vaccine .
These two boys participated in the national influenza vaccination campaign one and a half year ago; they were vaccinated with the drug Pandemrix.
This was confirmed by the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) following the
coverage in this paper that from Finnish research shows that there is an association between the vaccine with Pandemrix and sleeping sickness.
Telegraaf
This is not about the ordinary flu vaccine.
The vaccine Pandemrix has been used in the Netherlands late 2009 and early 2010 during the mass
vaccination campaign against swine flu. In addition, the vaccine by Novartis
(Brand name: Focetria) was used.
Experts suspect that the Pandemrix vaccine somehow triggers a certain genetic predisposition
for "sleeping sickness" . One of the boys did not have "narcolepsy` , but a related disease:
"cataplexy".
If you do a search on the website of the EMEA - the European medicines agency
- you can find a report that points to possible neurological symptoms after inoculation with
Pandemrix. Abnormalities were seen in newborn mice after vaccination of
mother mouse.
Novartis vaccine was recommended for pregnant women .
Sleeping sickness affects two toddlers
by Arianne Mantel
Amsterdam - Two children aged four years in our country were hit by the sleeping sickness narcolepsy after vaccination with the flu vaccine .
These two boys participated in the national influenza vaccination campaign one and a half year ago; they were vaccinated with the drug Pandemrix.
This was confirmed by the Medicines Evaluation Board (MEB) following the
coverage in this paper that from Finnish research shows that there is an association between the vaccine with Pandemrix and sleeping sickness.
Telegraaf
This is not about the ordinary flu vaccine.
The vaccine Pandemrix has been used in the Netherlands late 2009 and early 2010 during the mass
vaccination campaign against swine flu. In addition, the vaccine by Novartis
(Brand name: Focetria) was used.
Experts suspect that the Pandemrix vaccine somehow triggers a certain genetic predisposition
for "sleeping sickness" . One of the boys did not have "narcolepsy` , but a related disease:
"cataplexy".
If you do a search on the website of the EMEA - the European medicines agency
- you can find a report that points to possible neurological symptoms after inoculation with
Pandemrix. Abnormalities were seen in newborn mice after vaccination of
mother mouse.
Novartis vaccine was recommended for pregnant women .
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