Narcolepsy cases rising after swine flu vaccine
Published: 28 May 11 11:23 CET | Print version
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Ninety-three people in Sweden, most of them children, have been diagnosed with narcolepsy since taking the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix last winter, according to figures from the Swedish Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket).
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According to the Swedish Association of Persons with Neurological Disabilities (Neurologiskt handikappades riksförbund - NHR), the agency is examining a further 135 cases involving children and will present its full findings later this summer.
NHR announced on Friday the launch of a 250,000 kronor ($40,000) research grant to facilitate studies of the relationship between Pandemrix, a drug manufactured by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, and narcolepsy.
“We are deeply concerned and have decided that things needs to happen, and quickly,” said NHR chair Kathleen Bengtsson-Hayward in a statement.
A study presented in March by the Medical Products Agency showed that children and adolescents under 20 vaccinated with Pandemrix could be up to four times as likely to develop narcolepsy as those not inoculated.
Since August 2010, at least 12 countries have reported cases of narcolepsy, particularly among children and adolescents, after receiving a swine flu, or H1N1, vaccine.
Figures from Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), show that 31 million people have been vaccinated with Pandemrix in Europe.
According to the WHO, the rates of narcolepsy reported in Sweden, Finland and Iceland were higher than those in other countries.
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The name of the drug is just dreadful: Pandemrix!!! Who came up with it??? I say start collecting info and sue the trust who made this sinthetic, gather all the people and make a massive law suit, to my understanding it was just one company who has the drug monopoly!!!
People went into complete sheep madness when it came out, complete madness, I have mixed feelings but Im almost glad they got this secundary effects. Maybe people would think next time, If they sue maybe they´ll research, maybe we´ll have a better center of vaccines, just maybe...
so in reality they are worthless! (unless your big pharma)
You are right about the Swedish mentality and we were met with disdain by others who waited in line for their shots. Funny how now they say how it is a travesty.... how much money was wasted by the government etc etc
Great response! I study politics and just after christmas, we were looking at the trust and faitn people have within their countries. One research groups noted that the better the welfare state, the more trust people within those countries with good welfare, trust in their government and the authorities.
The same research found that countries in southern Europe, like Spain, Italy, France, Greece and the UK, where the welfare states are poor in comparison to the the nordic countries, people are less trusting in the authorities, hence the low levels of people who took the vaccine,
I never took the vaccine, as so many others did, as it is my belief that we question what is given to us as well as the news we are recieve, it seems as though the Swedish people have totally given up thinking for themselves and totally trust in the state and the authorities, "if they say it is good then it must be".
This is what years of a great welfare system has done to its people, it makes them cold, shy and introverted without the ability to think for themselves. according to: Är svensken människa? by Lars Trägårdh, definitely worth a read if you are a Swede or non swede.
According to Finland's National Health Institute, 2.5 million Finns were vaccinated against swine flu. Some 750 showed side effects, namely fevers, headaches and coughing, and one case was linked to narcolepsy.
Among children born in 1990 or later who had the Pandemrix vaccine, 4.06 persons per 100,000 had the disease, according to the MPA study. The rate was 0.97 among unvaccinated children.
Context - As of 17 October 2009, worldwide there have been more than 414,000 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 and nearly 5000 deaths reported to WHO.
Very little testing was done on the vaccine.
I just came back from the UK when watching a BBC news report saying how many had died and my parents moaning like crazy because most Brits believe in anything coming from a nice man wearing a nice suit and tie because of their subservient class system !
Daily Mail ,Express ,Sun and Mirror are the truth for the majority of Brits , common sense and individual intelligence is forgotten to these followers of the new Gods of TV and Media .
In 5 years time the Mail and other papers will be leading the campaign for compensation for the victims of vaccine after effects and hailing themselves as Champions and keep the perpetual moaning going on !
Probably E coli hysteria rampart in the UK and everyone demanding anti cucumber vaccines....more profit for the medical companies at any price !
Thalidomide....remember that and still to this day people are looking for justice !!!
UK ,World leaders in Media hysteria with a massive ,massive following !
Virus antigen is expensive, so the cheaper squalene is added to boost the immune response. (Immune response is not the same as immunity).
Squalene is suspected by serious research workers who are not tied to the vaccine industry, of increasing the risk of autoimmune diseases, narcolepsy being one of them.
Increase in the risk of narcolepsy should have been expected when Pandemrix was chosen.