Swine flu vaccine 'narcolepsy link'
Swine flu vaccine 'narcolepsy link' - Yahoo! News UK As we found in Australia with the Stokes Report, there are two forces at play here: 1- The premature release of vaccinations in a panic which were never properly tested on the age groups which they were targeting. 2- The lack of reporting of reactions when they occur - leading to a larger than necessary number of people being injured because most reactions are simply not reported. It is important for us to learn from these mistakes and not continue to make them over and over and over again. It is also important to realise that when someone reacts to a vaccine, there may not be a specific test to prove that it was the vaccine that caused the reaction. When the Epaparas in Brisbane lost their little girl 12 hours after receiving a flu vaccine, the coroner stated that he could not show any evidence that it was the vaccine that caused her death. But her twin sister who received the vaccine also had a serious reaction though thankfully, she survived. There is a time when we have to say that the laboratory may not give us the answers we require but our eyes, our brains and our intelligence should suffice. This is not a matter of post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) as many might say. But if you are seeing the same reaction repeated over and over again after the administration of any drug or vaccine, then it is a pretty safe bet to say that the drug or vaccine is implicated. Further, if these reactions are occurring but are not being reported, it increases the chance that there is a logical fallacy in action here - because we don't know how many of these adverse events are occurring, we downplay the actual risk of the intervention taking place and continue to put people in harm's way when full reporting and unbiased examination of events would lead to a more efficient duty of care being exercised in these cases.
The UK's medicines regulator is examining a possible link between a swine flu vaccine given to millions of Britons and the sleeping disorder narcolepsy. Skip related content
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said it is "evaluating" case reports in Europe of patients developing narcolepsy after taking the drug Pandemrix.
Made by GlaxoSmithKline, the vaccine was the most widely used in the UK at the height of last year's flu pandemic. On Friday, the European Medicines Agency said it was looking into Pandemrix after a number of cases of narcolepsy were reported, mostly in Sweden and Finland.
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Is Swine flu vaccine causing narcolepsy?
