Clinical testing never done - Flu jab fears grow as toddlers hospitalised

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" CLINICAL tests were never carried out on the latest seasonal flu

vaccine - a first-time combination of seasonal flu with the feared swine

flu H1N1 - that has left a baby girl fighting for her life in a Perth

hospital and sparked fits, fevers and vomiting in up to 60 toddlers

across the country. "

" Professor Robert Booy, the director of clinical research at the

National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance - who helped

supervise the swine flu trials - said the combination of flu strains

could not be the cause of the problems. "

 

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Flu jab fears grow as toddlers hospitalised

 

Debbie Guest and Natasha Bita The Australian April 24, 2010 12:00AM

CLINICAL tests were never carried out on the latest seasonal flu

vaccine - a first-time combination of seasonal flu with the feared swine

flu H1N1 - that has left a baby girl fighting for her life in a Perth

hospital and sparked fits, fevers and vomiting in up to 60 toddlers

across the country.

Health officials were last night trying to determine what had caused

the reactions in the children, mostly in Western Australia.

The country's chief medical officer, Jim Bishop, yesterday ordered

doctors in all states to stop giving the flu vaccine to children under

five.

Professor Bishop said non-swine flu strains in the vaccine may have

caused the reactions.

For the first time in the world, the flu shot rolled out in Australia

last month combined two strains of seasonal flu, as well as

H1N1.

Professor Bishop said the Panvax vaccine - the swine flu jab - was

" safe " , but said the combined flu shot had been suspended for

young children as a " precautionary measure " pending

investigation by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, which approved its

use last month.

Panvax was tested on 400 children before its release last year, but the

combined shot was not subjected to any clinical trials.

CSL, which manufactures both vaccines, has stopped distributing

children's doses nationally " to reduce the risk of inadvertent

administration in this age group " .

One angry West Australian mother, who only wanted to be identified as

Sharon, said if officials had acted earlier, the one-year-old girl in

critical condition in hospital may never have become sick.

Sharon had three of her four children vaccinated two weeks ago and all

three needed hospitalisation after suffering from fevers, vomiting and

fits. She said it was a frightening experience after her three-year-old,

Alivia, turned purple and began shaking. One of her one-year-old twins,

Lateesha, later started convulsing.

Peter Richmond, associate professor at the University of Western

Australia's school of pediatrics and child health, said the vaccine was

not subjected to trials.

" As with each year's seasonal influenza vaccine, this year's

seasonal influenza vaccine isn't subject to specific trials in children

before it's used, " he said.

He added that three trials of different combinations of seasonal flu

vaccines had been conducted in children and no concerns had been

raised.

Professor Robert Booy, the director of clinical research at the National

Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance - who helped supervise

the swine flu trials - said the combination of flu strains could not be

the cause of the problems.

 

 

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