By Elizabeth Finkel MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—A warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Australian vaccine maker CSL Biotherapies has shaken confidence in the country’s biotech superstar. The 15 June letter accuses CSL of failing to adequately investigate why its Fluvax influenza vaccine last year caused a sharply elevated rate of febrile convulsions […]
CSL influenza vaccine investigation 'inadequate'
By Nick Evans, Perth Now US REGULATORS have hammered Australian vaccine maker CSL over its “inadequate” investigation of manufacturing problems that may have led to severe reactions in children given the flu vaccine last year. In April last year Australian health authorities withdrew CSL’s season flu vaccine from use in children under five after 23 […]
Virus in the system
By Natasha Bita KIRSTEN and Mick Button were looking forward to a family holiday in Bali when the letter landed in their mailbox. From the West Australian Health Department, it urged them to vaccinate their children against the flu. A killer new strain of influenza, a mutant mix of human, avian and swine influenza viruses, […]
Fatal Polio Reported 12 Years After Exposure to Vaccine
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 15, 2011 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner In an unusual case of vaccine-derived polio, an immunodeficient woman receiving regular intravenous immune globulin treatment became paralyzed and died […]
Babies die after vaccination
By Megan Baadjies A Cape Flats community is shocked and enraged after the sudden mysterious death of two infants. Manenberg residents say the three-month-old babies died within a few hours of each other after receiving their routine vaccination injections at the local clinic. Hajiera Liewenberg, 23, who was with mom Nikita Le Grange, 20, at […]
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