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Sri Lanka has suspended use of the new 5 in 1 vaccine that covers Diptheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Hib and Hepatitis B due to the number of reactions in children. Is your pediatrician "in network" in Sri Lanka, by chance?
The pentavalent vaccine for children, introduced on January 1 this year under the National Immunisation Programme, has been suspended after it was found that children who had received the vaccination had developed side effects.
Read the full article HERE.
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The article mentions a hyper-response, which is different from a normal vaccine response, but doesn't go into what exactly a hyper-response is.
Any educated guesses out there?
Posted by: Kim Davis | July 06, 2008 at 05:37 PM
Repeat after me: More vaccines in the same shot is dangerous. More vaccines in the same shot is dangerous. ... We've just had the ProQuad four-in-one fiasco here (twice the rate of fever-induced seizures in the MMRV vs. the MMR plus separate varicella (chickenpox shot) ON THE SAME DAY! you would think that merely as a product liability issue these manufacturers would get the picture. They truly seem to believe their own shaky pre-release research that there's no problem, and then once thousands and millions of kids start getting the shots and the infamous "susceptible subset" start going down, they get all "no evidence of cause and effect in our research"-like.
Posted by: dan olmsted | July 06, 2008 at 07:25 AM