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    El Universal
    Hermosillo, Sonora Monday, 08 marzo of 2010
    22:18

    Inquiry lowers death by vaccine AH1N1

    Guillain Barr? syndrome is characterized as a disorder that attacks part of the peripheral nervous system and causes muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis

    An expert committee convened by the Ministry of Health of the State determined a maximum period of one month if the death of a child 2 years and 4 months old, registered on Feb. 26 at the Hospital Infantil del Estado de Sonora ( HIES), was due to reactions from the vaccine against influenza AH1N1.

    The head of the agency of government, Bernardo Campillo Garcia said the biologic is safe since "after the state implemented more than 242 thousand doses, 18% in children under three years, no severe reactions have found" .

    According to dependency, the minor, a native of El Citavaro, municipality of Huatabampo as background tiles had recurrent respiratory infections, and the implementation of the second dose of vaccine against influenza A H1N1.

    Still, "the clinical record of the child is under study and judgment by a committee of experts convened by the Ministry of Health, who all evidence found will issue the results within the next three or four weeks," he declared Campillo Garcia.

    "The infant received immediate medical attention for the first time on 24 February at the health center's Citavaro. After he entered the HIES little to present a changing picture of acute flaccid paralysis involving first legs, arms and muscles of breathing, so we studied and discussed as a probable case of Guillain Barre syndrome, "said the Health Ministry in a report.

    Guillain Barr? syndrome is characterized as a disorder that attacks part of the peripheral nervous system and causes muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis.

    The onset can be sudden and unexpected. No one knows for sure what causes it, but it usually occurs a few days that a patient has had a respiratory or gastrointestinal infection.

    The office reported that the child, which does not reveal his name, died Feb. 26 at 4:55 pm, from complications of pneumonia and so far no biological evidence that has been linked to the death .

    "The first dose of vaccine against H1N1 influenza A was applied to the infant on 19 January 2010, while the second was given on 20 February. With the same vial vaccines were applied to others and to date have not been Severe reactions recorded in them, "he said.

    He added that in Sonora, as in the rest of the country, the occurrence of acute flaccid paralysis in children under age 15, is studied as part of epidemiological surveillance that supports the elimination of poliomyelitis virus in the state .

    He said that a year in the state are recorded between 23 and 35 cases of Guillain Barre syndrome, which is related to previous respiratory infections.
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