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Suddenly tired
It was a Sunday evening in January 2010, as a Christian Schneider * collapsed and fell down the stairs. For weeks now the 17-year-old was noticeably tired and depressed. Maybe it was the weekend where they often went out with friends? But it got worse. Every day she went up to twenty times in the knee. The budding Abiturientin, who lives near Koblenz, changed: She fell asleep in school and grew. The doctors were baffled.
Early on Christin's mother harbored a suspicion: Could a vaccine that attacks have caused crash? Two months earlier, in autumn 2009, was her daughter against the epidemic of swine flu were vaccinated with Pandemrix. The vaccine was highly controversial, because it put the additive AS03, which increased its full effect. Critics such as the Flensburg SPD politician Wolfgang Wodarg described the vaccine as a reason "" risky. In Germany, the distrust of Pandemrix was so great that only eight percent of the vaccinated population left. Now, two years after the operation, experts consider it possible that the skeptics with their warning to keep at least half right.
Two weeks ago recommended the European Medicines Agency EMA, children and adolescents under 20 years only to administer the drug Pandemrix in exceptional cases. Your reminder is the conclusion of a months-long debate among virologists, epidemiologists, neurologists and sleep researchers.
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http://www.zeit.de/2011/33/M-Narkolepsie
It was a Sunday evening in January 2010, as a Christian Schneider * collapsed and fell down the stairs. For weeks now the 17-year-old was noticeably tired and depressed. Maybe it was the weekend where they often went out with friends? But it got worse. Every day she went up to twenty times in the knee. The budding Abiturientin, who lives near Koblenz, changed: She fell asleep in school and grew. The doctors were baffled.
Early on Christin's mother harbored a suspicion: Could a vaccine that attacks have caused crash? Two months earlier, in autumn 2009, was her daughter against the epidemic of swine flu were vaccinated with Pandemrix. The vaccine was highly controversial, because it put the additive AS03, which increased its full effect. Critics such as the Flensburg SPD politician Wolfgang Wodarg described the vaccine as a reason "" risky. In Germany, the distrust of Pandemrix was so great that only eight percent of the vaccinated population left. Now, two years after the operation, experts consider it possible that the skeptics with their warning to keep at least half right.
Two weeks ago recommended the European Medicines Agency EMA, children and adolescents under 20 years only to administer the drug Pandemrix in exceptional cases. Your reminder is the conclusion of a months-long debate among virologists, epidemiologists, neurologists and sleep researchers.
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http://www.zeit.de/2011/33/M-Narkolepsie