Experts posit vaccine link to illnesses
By Jane Chen |
March 25, 2010, Thursday
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VACCINATION against H1N1 flu has possibly led to several people falling ill in Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangdong Province.
An assessment by medical experts has preliminarily linked the illnesses to vaccination, Wang Ming, dean of Guangzhou Disease Control and Prevention Center, told yesterday's Yangcheng Evening News.
Wang declined to detail the illnesses and vaccine products involved, saying further investigation is underway.
He said the center has strictly followed the rules and procedures in vaccination.
The latest victim is a 10-year-old boy with a primary school in Baiyun District who became unable to stand or walk on his left leg after getting inoculated against H1N1 flu on Monday, according to yesterday's Southern Metropolis Daily.
Guangzhou's vaccination authority is closely monitoring his health while trying to find out the cause.
"It is yet early to say the vaccine was substandard and has triggered the illness, because normally adverse reaction to vaccine occurs two hours from the jabs and should affect the whole body rather than only the leg," an unidentified official with Guangzhou Disease Control and Prevention Center told the Southern Metropolis Daily.
None of the other hundreds of pupils who got the shot along with the boy showed any adverse reaction, he added.
Xian Weijian got vaccinated around 10am at his school with other students and felt unable to stand or walk on his left leg later that night. He was sent to local hospitals where doctors found no problems with his bone.
More examinations are being conducted to determine the cause of his illness.
His parents, insisting on his healthiness before the jab, questioned the vaccines' quality.
But they admitted Xian had coughed slightly a bit before getting the jab, which doctors said could have triggered some adverse reaction to the flu vaccine. People catching a cold are forbidden to get vaccinated.
An assessment by medical experts has preliminarily linked the illnesses to vaccination, Wang Ming, dean of Guangzhou Disease Control and Prevention Center, told yesterday's Yangcheng Evening News.
Wang declined to detail the illnesses and vaccine products involved, saying further investigation is underway.
He said the center has strictly followed the rules and procedures in vaccination.
The latest victim is a 10-year-old boy with a primary school in Baiyun District who became unable to stand or walk on his left leg after getting inoculated against H1N1 flu on Monday, according to yesterday's Southern Metropolis Daily.
Guangzhou's vaccination authority is closely monitoring his health while trying to find out the cause.
"It is yet early to say the vaccine was substandard and has triggered the illness, because normally adverse reaction to vaccine occurs two hours from the jabs and should affect the whole body rather than only the leg," an unidentified official with Guangzhou Disease Control and Prevention Center told the Southern Metropolis Daily.
None of the other hundreds of pupils who got the shot along with the boy showed any adverse reaction, he added.
Xian Weijian got vaccinated around 10am at his school with other students and felt unable to stand or walk on his left leg later that night. He was sent to local hospitals where doctors found no problems with his bone.
More examinations are being conducted to determine the cause of his illness.
His parents, insisting on his healthiness before the jab, questioned the vaccines' quality.
But they admitted Xian had coughed slightly a bit before getting the jab, which doctors said could have triggered some adverse reaction to the flu vaccine. People catching a cold are forbidden to get vaccinated.
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