Human error or faulty measles vaccine?

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This news must be viewed in the backdrop of the Government of India's decision to closedown all indigenous vaccine manufacturing units and allow the vaccine MNCs a free run in our country. This incident will certainly be viewed as a God sent opportunity by the health policy makers despite the tragic nature of the incident. Human life was never so cheap. Vaccines are however more dirty than the vaccine politics. Now that facts are coming out into the open we hope the public will learn a few lessons.The only way to protect yourself is TO AVOID ALL VACCINES. Be natural, be safe. PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN FROM HARM.. DO NOT VACCINATE.DO NOT BELIEVE THE VACCINE MNCs.TODAY THE SENIORMOST DOCTORS OF OUR COUNTRY ARE OPENLY SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE WHO & THE UNICEF.WHAT

THEY ARE SAYING TODAY WE HAVE BEEN SHOUTING FROM THE ROOFTOPS SINCE A LONG TIME.THERE IS STILL TIME. DEMAND THAT VACCINES BE BANNED.GIVE THE CHILDREN A CHANCE TO LIVE.Jagannath.

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Human error or faulty measles vaccine? One Of These Reasons Killed Four Babies In Tamil Nadu, Finds The Initial Probe Kounteya Sinha | TNN New

Delhi: All four children who died after being administered the measles

vaccine in Tamil Nadu on April 23 suffered severe brain haemorrhage

resulting from an anaphylactic shock, an inquiry has found. This

will be pointed out by the fivemember expert team sent by the health

ministry to investigate the deaths, when they submit their initial

report to health minister A Ramadoss on Monday. Experts in the

team said an anaphylactic shock—a severe, potentially lethal systemic

allergic reaction—following a measles vaccination is highly rare and

occurs in one out of every 10 lakh cases. They said the

anaphylactic shock killing all four—within half-an-hour of the vaccine

being administered around the same area—pointed to two likely reasons

for why the deaths occurred—a human error resulting in mixing the

freeze-dried vaccine with a different chemical in place of saline water

or a contaminated vaccine

containing a foreign protein, like bacteria, from being kept in the

open for more than three hours after being reconstituted. A

team member who returned from Chennai on Friday after investigations,

however, confirmed that the public health centre’s cold chain system,

which was used to store the vaccines, was not at fault. Putting

to rest allegations that the nurses may have used the same syringe to

vaccinate the three children after dipping it in chemicals like

adrenaline or muscle relaxants, the team said individual syringes were

used. One of the experts said, “There was no conflict between

what the nurses, angadwadi workers and family members of children who

died said. The cold chain system was fine. Police reports also showed

that individual syringes were used. But the government hospital which

carried out the postmortem found that all of them died of haemorrhage,

which is strange.†The Central Drug Laboratory has started

testing 20 samples of the vaccine from the same batch that killed the

children—10 each collected from the fatal site in Tiruvallur and those lying with the Human Biologicals Institute in Hyderabad. Worried

about its good manufacturing standards, the health ministry is now

sending a three-member team to HBI on Tuesday to check the PSU’s

measles vaccine production unit. “HBI is a pre-qualified WHO

unit. However, we need to be sure that it is following good

manufacturing standards set by WHO and the government of India. The

team will inspect the vaccine production area, check raw materials

being used and inspect its quality control measures,†a health ministry

official said. He added, “This case is really intriguing. A

single child can be sensitive to the vaccine and suffer from an

anaphylactic shock. But how can it occur on three children, one after

another, after being administered the vaccine from a single vial? On

the other hand, records show that 230 doses of the same vaccine batch

were used in the same PHC that day but no other deaths were recorded.†The team of experts has said that the public health centre’s cold chain was not to blame for her grief Think Simply. Think Wisely. Curb Semantics. Speak the Truth.

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