"Serious adverse reactions and deaths have now been reported with Pentavalentvaccine produced by other manufacturers and in a number of countries, the journal says. Bhutan. Sri Lanka and Pakistan have stopped using the vaccine, “following unexplained deaths soon after immunization.” Bhutan stopped the immunization program after four deaths but was later persuaded to restart immunization by the WHO. Reintroduction of the vaccine was followed by a further four deaths and Bhutan is not using this vaccine any longer, the journal says. “In all the deaths being discussed in this editorial, the common factor has been that the children had received Pentavalent vaccine and in most of them, this was followed by high fever, excessive crying and in some, there were convulsions before the child died,” the journal says expressing surprise at how the WHO “failed to see the unifying connection between the deaths” in the different countries."
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 13:21:06 +0000