This is bad news that may increase the mistrust of some parents regarding the vaccination of their children. Two babies died in 2012 and 2014 after being vaccinated against gastroenteritis, reveals Le Canard Enchaîné in its April 1 edition. Far from being an unwelcome April Fool’s joke, this information has been confirmed by the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM).
The satirical weekly takes up the conclusions of a report by the Technical Pharmacovigilance Committee (CPTV) dated February 2015. After analyzing national and international monitoring data on oral vaccines, the Committee noted that vaccines Rotarix and RotaTeq for infections with a virus that causes diarrhea in babies have a “worrying” number of serious side effects.
Among the serious observations, 47 cases of acute intussusception were reported, that is to say intestinal obstructions occurring in the month following vaccination. Two of them even claimed the lives of babies. In view of this alarming finding, the CPTV wonders “on the merits of recommending the generalization of this vaccination in France”. Its report was sent to the General Directorate of Health (DGS) as well as to the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS).
The High Council of Public Health which had advised this vaccination in November 2013 specifies that it “planned to re-examine in the coming days its recommendations “. A letter was also sent to 160,000 healthcare professionals to inform families of the adverse effects that should prompt them to consult without delay: abdominal pain, repeated and unusual crying of the child, vomiting, presence of blood in the stools. , abdominal bloating and / or high fever. Early treatment makes it possible to treat the baby before the disease escalates.
The revelation of these two deaths falls rather badly for the health authorities as for the laboratories, underlines Le Canard Enchaîné. “The reimbursement decision must fall in the coming days, and it will be no” thus advance a connoisseur of the file in the satirical newspaper, for whom obtaining the reimbursement would have been a “guaranteed jackpot” for the laboratories that provide the vaccine.
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