4 infants die after measles vaccination, Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Useless-WHO

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Two articles on useless vaccines. Earlier in April 2008 also 4 infants died in Tamilnadu, India after measles vaccine - brain haemmorhage.

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4 infants die after vaccination

http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/28/stories ... 860100.htm

The Hindu

Online edition of India's National Newspaper

Sunday, Sep 28, 2008

Aurangabad: Four infants died and six others were in a critical state after they were administered measles vaccination by the Zilla Parishad health department officials in a village here on Friday, official sources said.
Of the 10 children vaccinated in the drive at Waghola village in the district here, three died on Friday night and one on Saturday. Soon after the vaccine was given, the children began vomiting. They were admitted to a primary healthcare centre from where they were shifted to the Government Medical College and Hospital owing to deteriorating health, — PTI
Pneumonia vaccine useless, increases asthma risk: WHO

Indo Asian News Service

http://www.aol.in/news-story/pneumonia- ... index.html

Last Updated: September 07, 2008 01:07:02
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Raising questions over India's decision to include a new pneumonia vaccine in the national immunisation programme, a report in a WHO bulletin has said the vaccine has 'no effect' on the disease and on the contrary increases the risk of asthma among vaccinated children.
The report, published in the September edition of the WHO Bulletin, claimed that Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV), the latest addition to India's immunisation programme, is ineffective in tackling pneumonia among children and hence does not justify the huge amount of money the government will spend on it.
Citing medical studies conducted by renowned health care groups like Cochrane, the article by Jacob Puliyel and Soma Chowdhary, doctors in the Department of Paediatrics in Delhi's St Stephens hospital says: 'PCV does not reduce the incidence of clinical pneumonia and poor nations will need to assess its cost utility carefully'.
'The research has found that only 3.6 children per 1,000 vaccinated acquire immunity against the pneumonia, whereas the risk of asthma is doubled by the vaccination,' Puliyel told IANS.
The apprehensions raised in the report assume significance in the context of the recent decision by a high-level expert committee of the health ministry recommending the use of the PCV in the national immunisation programme.
'We have decided to protect children against pneumoccocal diseases. The PCV will be introduced in the country's national immunisation programme in a year's time,' Health Secretary Naresh Dayal had said.
Considering the high costs of the PCV, the ministry has planned to introduce it in a state with good immunisation coverage and high disease burden so that the impact of the vaccine can be monitored, and then replicate the vaccination programme across the country.
'The per dose cost of PCV comes out to be Rs.4,000 per child compared to about Rs.50 (including Oral Polio Vaccination and Diptheria Polio Typhoid) that is being spent on Pneumonia vaccination currently by the government,' Puliyel said.
'Even after increasing the costs, if we give our children ineffective vaccination which in turn hikes the asthma risk, it is clearly not worth it. The cost evaluation of the vaccine has to be done carefully,' Puliyel added.
Meanwhile, Wyeth, a multinational drug company that will be supplying the vaccine to the health ministry, said: 'The article contains inaccurate and misleading statements. The WHO recommends the priority inclusion of vaccine in national childhood immunisation programmes worldwide.'
(Richa Sharma can be contacted at richa.s@ians.in )
© Copyright 2008 Indo Asian News Service.
4 Kids die from measles vaccine
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
http://humansandviruses.blogspot.com/20 ... ccine.html
After receiving the measles vaccine this past Wed, 4 children from Tamil Nadu, India have died of brain hemorrhage due to anaphylactic shock. Two possible explanations for the deaths have been offered: 1) the people giving the vaccine mixed the vaccine with something other than saline; 2) vaccine contaminated by some pathogen after reconstitution. It is also possible that the vaccine company is not using safe vaccine production techniques and a team is being dispatched to investigate this. Oddly, these deaths all occurred from vaccine constituted from the same vial, but another 230 kids also inoculated with this vaccine did not suffer any consequences.