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 close

down 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

NewDelhi: All four children who died after being administered the measlesvaccine

in Tamil Nadu on April 23 suffered severe brain haemorrhageresulting from an

anaphylactic shock, an inquiry has found.

Thiswill be pointed out by the fivemember expert team sent by the

healthministry to investigate the deaths, when they submit their initialreport

to health minister A Ramadoss on Monday.

Experts in theteam said an anaphylactic shock—a severe, potentially lethal

systemicallergic reaction—following a measles vaccination is highly rare

andoccurs in one out of every 10 lakh cases.

They said theanaphylactic shock killing all four—within half-an-hour of

the vaccinebeing administered around the same area—pointed to two likely

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

thefreeze-dried vaccine with a different chemical in place of saline wateror a

contaminated vaccinecontaining a foreign protein, like bacteria, from being kept

in theopen for more than three hours after being reconstituted.

Ateam 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.

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

tovaccinate the three children after dipping it in chemicals likeadrenaline or

muscle relaxants, the team said individual syringes wereused.

One of the experts said, “There was no conflict betweenwhat the nurses,

angadwadi workers and family members of children whodied said. The cold chain

system was fine. Police reports also showedthat individual syringes were used.

But the government hospital whichcarried out the postmortem found that all of

them died of haemorrhage,which is strange.â€

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.

Worriedabout its good manufacturing standards, the health ministry is

nowsending a three-member team to HBI on Tuesday to check the PSU’smeasles

vaccine production unit.

“HBI is a pre-qualified WHOunit. However, we need to be sure that it is

following goodmanufacturing standards set by WHO and the government of India.

Theteam will inspect the vaccine production area, check raw materialsbeing used

and inspect its quality control measures,†a health ministryofficial said.

He added, “This case is really intriguing. Asingle child can be sensitive

to the vaccine and suffer from ananaphylactic shock. But how can it occur on

three children, one afteranother, after being administered the vaccine from a

single vial? Onthe other hand, records show that 230 doses of the same vaccine

batchwere used in the same PHC that day but no other deaths were recorded.â€

The team of experts has said that the public health centre’s cold chain was

not to blame for her grief

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