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    The OPS rule out cases of narcolepsy in America for flu vaccine
    February 16, 2011 ? 15:15

    The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Mirta Roses, ruled today that America has detected an "adverse effect", such as narcolepsy, the implementation of vaccination against influenza A.
    "So far we have not had any adverse association with influenza vaccine. Because influenza vaccine is not used alone in this cycle and is incorporated with the mixture of the seasonal vaccine and still do not see any difficulty, "Roses said in a meeting with reporters in San Salvador.
    The official told Efe that of the approximately 400 million doses used to combat the H1N1 virus between late 2009 and 2010, "nearly 200 million doses were placed in the Americas."
    Roses, who is serving a one-week visit to the country that began on Feb. 12 said, moreover, that this continent has a better surveillance, even better than the European. "
    "We make a study of countries when going to introduce a vaccine if it is necessary and appropriate, we control the quality of the vaccine and we control after (...), which are used called a system of adverse effects, "he said, noting that investigate all reported cases.
    Referring to the report warned of "a potential association of influenza vaccine with narcolepsy, it is clear that jobs that" not even yet validated by the scientific community. "
    Narcolepsy is a disease state that occurs in the affected access irresistible sleep at any time.
    "Be very careful because we may lose the trust of the people in systems of quality control there," said Roses, who also serves as Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO).
    On 8 February, the Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety, WHO issued a statement specifying that "since August 2010 and, following massive vaccination against influenza virus H1N1 in 2009, there were cases of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in at least 12 countries ", without specifying which ones.
    WHO has donated 36 million doses of vaccine Pandemrix to 18 developing countries, three of them American, but so far not been heard of who have been cases of narcolepsy.
    The list of countries receiving "Pandemrix" is the following: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cuba, North Korea, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Namibia, Philippines, Tajikistan, Togo, Rwanda, Kenya, Mongolia and Senegal.
    However, the WHO committee said it takes "more research" to determine the exact relationship between cases of narcolepsy and influenza vaccination, the vaccine is Pandemrix or other purposes.
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