Female fetus dies vaccinated against influenza in Portugal

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Female fetus dies vaccinated against influenza in Portugal

A pregnant woman has given birth to a baby died several days after she was vaccinated against human influenza, in the second case of its kind in Portugal.

The doctor Luis Graza, an obstetrician at Hospital CUF Descobertas Lisbon, which was admitted on Monday the woman, denied that any relationship between the vaccine and the baby's death.

The woman had a pregnancy of 34 weeks, had been vaccinated against Influenza A and was hospitalized with the dead fetus. Until the autopsy is performed with unknown causes of death of the product.

According Graza, "direct association between vaccination and fetal death, at least in the case of Portalegre (first registered in Portugal) is excluded in the preliminary autopsy results.

In the first case, on Sunday, a woman gave birth to a baby died due to acute oxygen deprivation and according to the autopsy, the death is unrelated to the vaccine, to say the obstetrician.

The doctor said that in Sweden, where they have been vaccinated 2.5 million people, and in Norway, where they received the vaccine 1 million people, fetal deaths have also occurred, but none directly related to the vaccine.

According to the doctor, a pregnant woman may suffer the death of her fetus even if she did not receive the vaccine against influenza A. (Xinhua)
19/11/2009

 

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RODRIGO BETHLEHEM | LISBON

Two newly pregnant vaccinated against influenza in Portugal have lost their babies, although it is unknown whether fetal death was caused by the vaccine. The two women, who were in week 33 and 34 of gestation, respectively, had been vaccinated against the H1N1 virus three days before losing their children. Pregnant women in Portugal are part of the risk groups to which they are administering the vaccine since last October 26. The health ministry Pandemrix Luso chose GlaxoSmithKline vaccination of all groups not exist without adjuvant vaccine for pregnant women, as in Spain.
The first recorded cases occurred on Sunday in hospital in Portalegre, where doctors diagnosed the loss of a female fetus of 34 weeks gestation. As reported by doctors, the autopsy of the fetus is not conclusive considering that fetal death was caused by sequence alterations in the bloodstream. The second case was confirmed yesterday in the hospital Descobertas Cuf Lisbon, where a woman in the 33rd week of pregnancy was admitted Monday night to record fetal movements decreased. According to the hospital's clinical director, Concei??o Telhado, you can not establish any connection point between the vaccine influenza A and fetal death. The autopsy results will be known in coming days.
Secretary of State for Health, Manuel Pizarro, has expressed "total confidence" in the work of supervision over the safety of vaccines by health services in the country.

 

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Two pregnant women vaccinated against influenza in Portugal lost their babies
Those responsible for a hospital in the capital lusa discarded until the autopsy is done, it is because the drug


18/11/2009 | Updated at 18:30 pm | Citizen
Lisbon. (EFE) .- A hospital in the capital confirmed today lusa the second case in Portugal of fetal loss in pregnant after being vaccinated against influenza H1N1, but discarded, while an autopsy is done, it is because of the vaccine .


Jimenez said that the campaign of vaccination against influenza is well


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The woman, 34 weeks pregnant, had been vaccinated against influenza A three days before to inform him last Monday at the hospital, that her baby had muerttro similar case occurred on Sunday in hospital in the city Portalegre, on the eastern side of Portugal, when doctors diagnosed the loss of the fetus to a woman three days earlier also vaccinated against influenza A when he had another 34 weeks of gestation.

Telhado Conceicao, Director of Gynecology and Obstetrics Service of CUF Descobertas private hospital, where he found the second case, said at a press conference that you can not make a connection between the influenza vaccine and the death of feto.No however noted that the causes of death of the unborn can not be established until an autopsy is done and that this may not yield conclusive data.

Maybe nothing is found and vaccination of the mother and fetal death are "pure and simple accident," indic?.La autopsy of another fetus, performed at the Hospital de Portalegre, yielded no conclusive results, reported this week Doctors from the center.

Francisco George, Director of Public Health of Portugal, was quoted today, recalled that last year there were 263 deaths in Portugal fetuses from 28 weeks embarazo.Las Lusas health authorities have recommended that pregnant women be vaccinated influenza A by the increased risk of developing complications if they contract the virus.

The secretary of State for Health, Manuel Pizarro, has underlined its "full confidence" in the work of supervision over the safety of vaccines made by Health Services country.Security influenza vaccine began to be given this month Portugal to so-called "risk groups" such as health and service personnel, pregnant women and chronically ill.