Submitted by Lois Rain
Earlier this year, we brought news about research that linked the swine flu vaccine to debilitating narcolepsy, especially among youth. In Finland, where the original findings stem, health officials disregarded the concerns, essentially saying the risk of narcolepsy was worth attempting to keep the flu at bay with the vaccine.
Europe’s Health Service Executive is removing all stocks of Pandemrix from general practices which coincides with the Independent’s story of eight people in Ireland, most of them teenagers, who developed narcolepsy after receiving the jabs. Sweden’s Medical Products Agency had concluded that people under 20 vaccinated with Pandemrix may be four times as likely to develop narcolepsy than those who did not get the shot. The Irish Medicine Board had been flooded with adverse-reaction reports regarding the vaccine.
Narcolepsy doesn’t just affect sleep patterns. Besides sudden, heavy sleepiness, other notable symptoms are sudden loss of muscle tone that can lead to collapse, sleep paralysis, and half asleep, half awake hallucinations. Since the European Medicines Agency has not received reports of a significant narcolepsy increase in the UK they are not recommending any hamper to the drug’s current marketing authorization.
Earlier this year, we brought news about research that linked the swine flu vaccine to debilitating narcolepsy, especially among youth. In Finland, where the original findings stem, health officials disregarded the concerns, essentially saying the risk of narcolepsy was worth attempting to keep the flu at bay with the vaccine.
[Note from SaneVax: You don’t see a lot of these warnings in the traditional press. Medical consumers need to be alert to the possible risk of narcolepsy when considering flu vaccines. Informed decisions are healthy decisions.]
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