Government recognizes that they are studying hospitalized child in case of vaccine-Talca

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Government recognizes that they are studying hospitalized children in case of vaccine-Talca
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Government acknowledged they are studying the case of seven year old boy is hospitalized in Talca because it would have presented an adverse reaction to the vaccine against influenza A H1N1.

She also noted that the confirmed cases this year already have forty with a fatal outcome.
Undersecretary of Public Health, Liliana Jadue, acknowledged that the influenza vaccine could be the cause of hospitalization for children age 7 and Talca.

The authority assumed the Guillain Barre syndrome, diagnosed the child, could be related to the vaccine against H1N1 and are studying the case.

The government insisted, however, in that the syndrome that causes a type of paralysis, with an incidence of one case per hundred thousand, against the argument that last year 153 people died of human influenza.

The professor of toxicology at the University Andr?s Bello, Fernando Torres, said that the possibility that another person will develop Guillain Barr? syndrome is very low.

The government made a strong call to get vaccinated against influenza A H1N1, since only 68% of those who constitute the population at risk and is already vaccinated.

The period of free vaccination for pregnant women, people over 65, chronically ill children between 2 and 35 months will last until 30 May.

And thanks to the donation of France to one million two hundred thousand doses, may also be vaccinated teachers.

Moreover, the regions most affected by the earthquake, (Region de O'Higgins, Maule, B?o B?o and La Araucan?a), the ministry decided to strengthen the immunization program to include children from 2-14 years, as a preventive measure extraordinary, and also to all those who are in shelters and camps

 

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Minsal investigating if child's illness is related to H1N1 vaccine

The child took a syndrome and is under treatment and in good condition, said Undersecretary Jadue. He reported 40 cases of human influenza.
by Paula Riquelme and latercera.com - 14/05/2010 - 12:50

The Ministry of Health confirmed a case of a boy identified as MI (7) presented Guillain-Barr? syndrome and investigates whether or not attributable to the vaccine against human influenza. The child was inoculated in late April.

"There really is a child at the Hospital of Talca has Guillain-Barre syndrome. This child is hospitalized, is in good condition, has not required special measures of control and is developing positively," said Liliana Jadue secretary. The child is being treated with immune globulin.

He noted that "this is an issue which is actually one of the possible complications of the vaccine. However, the risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome is much lower, very much less than the risk of influenza complications.'s Syndrome Guillain-Barr? is monitored and this is the case that has been researched. "

Jadue explained that this is an autoimmune syndrome that produces a flaccid paralysis for some time, but that is recoverable. "People do well, very rarely is irretrievable," he said.

The Health SEREMI Maule, Osvaldo Palma, reported that the child "had neurological damage due to prematurity (born at 32 weeks of gestation), so who attended the Telethon, and was vaccinated on April 29 in school, Cauquenes. "

He said symptoms 10 days later and was admitted to the pediatric ICU, although it never needed mechanical ventilation. This is the third day of hospitalization.

40 cases of H1N1
In addition, the Secretary of Health reported that 40 cases have been confirmed in persons infected with human influenza virus.

"There are 40 confirmed cases in total, all the past to the south of Chile, particularly in the Lake District, where we already have 17 cases," he said.

He added that "at this time in Chile, by 2010 there is a single death from influenza H1N1, which actually corresponds to a person who fell ill in 2009 and that, however, respiratory sequelae that was the person died in 2010.

The Minsal has arranged three million vaccines against H1N1, but there are 2.6 million people inoculated. So Jadue reiterated the call to vaccinate at-risk groups, including pregnant women.